There is love, loss, and a hope for a future. While the politics of the times are the backdrop, the human element is what kept me turning the pages. The communist regime is not viewed favorably - all the injustices are exposed. She presents various sides of the revolution, sympathetic to those who fled into exile and those who chose to stay. Cleeton does an excellent job of bringing Cuba past and present to life. The dual timeline novel also features Elisa’s granddaughter Marisol, who is tasked with returning to Cuba after Fidel Castro’s death and surreptitiously spreading her grandmother’s ashes. This novel introduces the Perez family (various members of the family are characters in other of Cleeton’s books), specifically Elisa, a privileged young woman caught up in the Cuban Revolution of 1958. I picked it up from Audible because I really liked The Last Train to Key West, and I was eager for another book in the same vein. Next Year in Havana was the first book Chanel Cleeton authored.
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