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The Other Side Of Paradise
Julia Cooke
Life in the New Cuba
Seal Press
April 2014
On Sale: April 8, 2014
248 pages
ISBN: 1580055311
EAN: 9781580055314
Kindle: B00HTQ34K6
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Non-Fiction
Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with
uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores
and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke,
who lived there at intervals over a period of five years,
discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with
Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children
of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes,
university graduates planning to leave for the first country
that will give them a visa.
This last generation of
Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning
era of political stagnation as the rest of the world
beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and
attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music
careers and black-market business ventures, trying to
reconcile the undefined future with the urgent
today.
Eye-opening and politically prescient, The
Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding
of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
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