Cecilia M. Fernandez

Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home and dropped her into the low-income neighborhood of Miami's Little Havana.

Her philandering father focused on rebuilding his career, chasing the American promise of wealth and freedom from the past. Her mother spiraled into madness trying to hold the family together and get him back. Neglected and trapped, Cecilia rebelled against her conservative culture and embraced the 1960s counter-culture - seeking love, attention and a place of her own in America. But immigrant children either thrive or self-destruct in a new land. How will Cecilia beat the odds?

While most memoirs by Cuban-Americans revolve around childhood scenes in Cuba and explore the experiences of a young man, Leaving Little Havana is the first refugee memoir to focus on a Cuban girl growing up in America, rising above the obstacles and clearing a path to her own American Dream.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BeatingWindward
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781940761053
• Artikelnr.: 72787715

Autorenporträt

Cecilia M. Fernandez is an independent journalist and college instructor with a passion for literature. Her work has appeared in Latina Magazine, Accent Miami, Upstairs at the Duroc: the Paris Workshop Journal, Vista Magazine, and Le Siecle de George Sand.

She lives in Weston, Florida and teaches writing and literature at Broward College and Miami International University of Art and Design. Her debut memoir, Leaving Little Havana, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Book Contest.