Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton 🧡 | Published February 6th 2018 by Penguin/Berkley | 361 Pages | Goodreads
PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution…”
REVIEW
A familiar yet unique story, deeply evocative, and mesmerizing. I devoured this book and enjoyed every sentence.
The story is told in my favorite form of narration, alternating points of view and timelines. The novel begins in the days when the Cuban revolution started and travels to the present times when Marisol visits Cuba to scatter her grandmother’s ashes on the beloved land she left behind many years ago.
“We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel.”
The author did a great job at describing Cuba, the Cuba of “then” and the Cuba of “now”. its places, the land, I felt I was there with the characters and emotionally connected to the story from the beginning.
I hope this is the first in a series because there are many secondary characters with interesting backstories that I want to get to know, specially, Beatriz’ story.
Overall, this was an amazing book. I highly recommend it.
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
Miami-Dade’s library overdrive, audiobook
I’m looking forward to listening to this whenever my number comes up in the library queue. Love your review!
Wonderful review. I put this on my TBR when I started reading great reviews of this book. I am looking forward to reading and/or listening to this one.
Wonderful review Carol! So glad you enjoyed! 💜
Lovely review! I’m always looking for books that introduce a historical aspect of countries I’m less familiar with.
Love your review Carol! I’ve actually been on the fence about this one but your review has put it on my TBR list!