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The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a golden age of cultural exchange between Cuba and the United States. Beaches, nightclubs, and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo, and Afro-Cuban jazz up north. With insightful essays and rare photographs, magazines, and advertisements, these pages offer visions of the people and places that made Cuba so important in the American imagination. Promising Paradise sheds light on…

This book presents a meticulously-researched biography on Guillermo Belt Ram rez, one of Cuba's most important diplomats of the 20th century. As Ambassador, Belt represented his homeland in the United States and the Soviet Union as the Cold War turned wartime allies into enemies. He also represented a generation of diplomats who, after bearing witness to the horrors of war, had the resolve to join to create the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Organization of American States.…

Presenta Sinfonía salvaje and El abra del Yumurí Havana, July 26, 1959. The disoriented members of Cuba’s high society and petite bourgeoisie realize that their position, wealth, and even life are in danger. Frederick de Armas’ second novel Sinfonía salvaje (Savage Symphony, 2019) deals with panic, delirium, the immense possibilities that open and close, in a magical moment when everything changes. Struggling to preserve their values, privileges, and charm, three Cuban women, like silk worms, weave a new fabric, as…

A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found. Twenty-three years later, after reports of alleged sightings of the girl, police reopen the case. Detective Maria Duquesne has been assigned to the case, but she has very little in the way of clues. Is it really possible that the girl has not…