RaveThe Wall Street Journal... [a] remarkable book ... Mr. DePalma anchors all of the historical touchpoints in the powerful stories of the people we meet ... Some of the most harrowing stories take place during the so-called special period of the ’90s, when the Soviet Union fell and its subsidies to Cuba vanished ... Cary, Lili, Jorge, and the others have risked a great deal to share their stories. Flipping through the many dog-eared pages of my copy of this book, I wondered: What was in it for them? I decided, finally, that they simply wanted to be heard.
