When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
Contents
Coming to Glorytown -- The revolution -- The Bay of Pigs -- Our last noche buena -- More changes -- Stories to ease the pain -- Tio William's arrest -- 149901 -- Gusanos -- Remember the Lord -- More goodbyes -- Panetelas de vainilla -- The ashes of spring -- La Natividad -- Nguyen Van Troy -- Papa's homecoming -- Senora Santana -- A taste of freedom -- Planning to escape -- Flight to freedom.
