Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-Of-Age in America

Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-Of-Age in America

Poet, fiction, writer, and scholar Gustavo Perez Firmat writes a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American's lifelong search for identity and a sense of roots in his adopted land. "Next Year in Cuba is a valuable and heartfelt addition to the canon of Cuban-American writing. A fine portrait of a family and culture in transition." Oscar Hijuelos, author of Mambo Kinds Play Songs of Love "The Cuban-American memoir we ve all been waiting for . . . a rare and exceptional jewel of a book . . . the pleasures and perils of the Cuban-American experience become our own in this moving and engrossing read." Virgil Suárez, author of Latin Jazz and Havana Thursdays GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT, poet, fiction writer, and scholar, is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University in New York City and the author of The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature and Life-on-the-Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way, essays on the Cuban-American culture (University of Texas Press, 1994). Life-on-the-Hyphen won the Kayden University Press National Book Award. Pérez Firmat lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and two children. Used Book in Good Condition