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The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba

by Julia Cooke
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781580055314
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
  • Publisher Imprint: Seal Press (CA)
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: USD 17.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Essays & Travelogues, Caribbean & West Indies, and Regional Studies

Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in clichÃ(c)90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, SanterÃ-trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa.

This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today.
Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.

Julia Cooke writes for Virginia Quarterly Review, Conde Nast Traveller, and the Atlantic. Her international reporting has appeared in Monocle, the Wall Street Journal, and Metropolis, and she's written personal essays for the Paris Review Daily, the Christian Science Monitor, and Guernica. Cooke is the recipient of fellowships from The Norman Mailer Center and Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches writing at The New School.

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