Next year in Cuba
Subtitle: a Cubano's coming-of-age in America
By: Gustavo Pérez Firmat.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949- -- Childhood and youth; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Cuban American families -- Florida -- Miami; Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Miami; Cuban American poets -- Biography; Miami (Fla.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: Gustavo Perez Firmat arrived in America with his family at the age of eleven. Victims of Castro's revolution, the Perez family put their life on hold, waiting for Castro's fall. Each Christmas, along with other Cuban families in the neighborhood, they celebrated with the cry, "Next Year in Cuba.".

Growing up in the Dade County school system, and graduating from college in Florida, Perez Firmat was insulated from America by the nurturing sights and sounds of Little Havana. It wasn't until he left home to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan that he realized, as the Cuba of his birth receded farther into the past, he had become no longer wholly Cubano, but increasingly a man of two heritages and two countries.

In a searing memoir of a family torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life.