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Also by Mirta Ojito:

Deeper Than the Ocean, November 2025
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Hunting Season, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Finding Manana, April 2006
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FINDING MANANA
By: Mirta Ojito

A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

Penguin
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0143036602
EAN: 9780143036609
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

In this unforgettable memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mirta Ojito travels back twenty-five years to the event that brought her and 125,000 of her fellow Cubans to America: the 1980 mass exodus known as the Mariel boatlift. As she tracks down the long-forgotten individuals whose singular actions that year profoundly affected thousands on both sides of the Florida straits, she offers a mesmerizing glimpse behind Cuba’s iron curtain—and recalls the reality of being a sixteen-year-old torn between her family’s thirst for freedom and a revolution that demanded absolute loyalty. Recounting an immensely important chapter in the ever-evolving relationship between America and its neighbor to the south, Finding Mañana is a major triumph by one of our finest journalists.

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All Things Considered - November 16, 2007