This month Hella reviews the book Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

Only ninety miles separates the island of Cuba from Key West, Florida in the U.S., but there is a vast difference between the two countries as told in this historical fiction in which the political history of Cuba in the late 1950’s is played out. A story filled with family relationships, secrets, forbidden love, and intrigue, it is told in two different timelines, 1958 and 2017. In 2017 Marisol Ferrera, a free-lance journalist, travels from Miami to Havana to fulfill her beloved grandmother’s last wish to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Marisol grew up listening to endless storytelling from her grandmother Elisa about the beautiful country she grew up in and which she was forced to flee with her family during the revolution in 1958.. Read the full review

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