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Cuba, September 2010
Hardcover
My Revolution
Vertigo
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
144 pages ISBN: 140122217X EAN: 9781401222178 Hardcover
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Graphic Novel
Seventeen-year-old Sonia, a medical student with dreams of
becoming a modernist painter, is caught up in Fidel Castro’s
revolution from the moment it captures Havana on New Year’s
Eve 1958. While her eccentric mother hatches an increasingly
desperate series of plans to flee Cuba, Sonia joins the
militia and volunteers as a medic at the Bay of Pigs — where
she encounters her mortally wounded high school sweetheart
as an enemy fighter, then is arrested and tortured for
treating another CIA-trained brigadier. Scarred, yet
clinging to her revolutionary ideals, she seeks fulfillment
in an artists’ collective, only to be further disillusioned
by increasing repression under Castro. Finally, she flees to
America where she has been a painter and influential arts
activist.
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