Set amidst the turmoil of the Castro revolution, my bestselling novel shares the honest journey of an idealistic boy determined to stay true to himself as he searches for happiness against all odds. 

 

Told in a series of first-person vignettes, this intimate story covers a wide swath of the Cuban landscape and its people, taking the reader from the lush green and fertile soils of his grandparents’ comfortable farm to Havana’s promises of false expectations and broken dreams as the regime destroys all that he holds dear.

 

The governing theme of the novel, the strength of the human heart, propels the main character forward in his exile to Spain and into a journey of promise, redemption, and love.