Title: The maids of Havana
Description: Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami.
Subjects: Black Women, Fiction, Black people, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Noires, Romans, nouvelles, Conditions sociales, Manners and customs, Sociala förhållanden, Blacks, Women, black, Women, black--cuba--fiction, Blacks--cuba--fiction, Pq7390.p44 c7513 2010
Places: Cuba