![]() In Havana, 1958, Elisa Perez is a 19-year old Cuban socialite. Seeing as how I had that experience, my friend has constantly tried to get me to read Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, to the point where she just ended up buying it for me. (You can read all about my trip here, here , and here.) Now, I speak to my Cuban family all the time, and I'm so thankful and grateful for that trip. Neither they nor their cousin knew if the others were still alive. It had been 70 years since my grandma and my cousin's had been back to Cuba, and after the revolution, they lost all contact with their family there. We went to the address where our grandma's would stay while in Cuba, and we found their cousin, one of her daughters, and granddaughter. What made the trip even more special was we found family that we didn't even know existed. It was definitely an emotional trip for us, we heard stories growing up from our grandmothers, but actually being there walking the same streets as them was something entirely else. ![]() I've always been fascinated about learning more about her time there, and this past May, my second cousin and I finally got to visit Havana. ![]() Her family came to America in the 1930's, but she spent a lot of her childhood/early teens in Cuba. ![]()
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