Learning to Die in Miami

Confessions of a Refugee Boy

Recommended by Oscar Hijuelos, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #29 in Cuban, Ranked #32 in Cuba

In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands of other children—to begin their new life in Miami in 1962. It would be years before he would see his mother again. He would never again see his beloved father.

Learning to Die in Miami opens as the plane lands and Carlos faces, with trepidation and excitement, his new...
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Oscar Hijuelos He is best known for his earlier book, Waiting for Snow in Havana. (Source)


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