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Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in
love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never
strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate
her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the
complex mix of emotions, devotion and rejection, enrapture and
apprehension that she develops toward the country. Her tale is
filled with beautifully woven descriptions of Cuba and the customs
and habits of its people. Aschkenas is a discerning observer,
taking in the innocence, isolation, contradictions, and resolute
optimism of a people who have persevered against the collective
disappointment bestowed upon them by a government that has been
unable to deliver the utopia promised by socialism. Aschkenas,
already a seasoned traveller by the time she arrives in Cuba for
the first time in 1999, is overcome by her own passion for Cuba and
her unraveling affection for Alfredo as she comes to appreciate his
naivete, sincerity, and ability to live for the moment, something
she comes to realize is the effect of growing up in a culture where
nothing is ever certain.
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