The Property of the Revolution tour has been great fun!
No one ever tells you how insanely busy things get after a book comes out. But I’ve loved every second. Hearing readers’ new understanding of the beauty and power of immigrant families is beyond rewarding. Here are just a few of the book-related shenanigans in recent days. I’m grateful to everyone for helping introduce Property of the Revolution to the readers and, especially, for their generosity and hospitality.
¡Hola! Thanks so much for stopping in. I hope you’ll poke around and learn more about my passion: celebrating the power and resilience of immigrant families.
That’s what I set out to do with my award-winning memoir, Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town (She Writes Press/Simon and Schuster Distribution). It’s an intimate, personal story about home, family, politics, and courage.
I was nearly six when the revolution my working-class family had initially supported ended up landing on our heads. The viejos—elders—in our family were forced to break apart our large extended family to save our small young one. My memoir brings you on that journey loss and reinvention and shows you why we found the best of ourselves and America in a snowy New Hampshire town.
I grew up in that town, Nashua, graduated from Smith College and, after enjoying a career in software consulting, began my writing career. My writing about Cuba and Cuban Americans has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and elsewhere. My commentaries and storytelling have aired on national broadcasts of NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS’s Stories from the Stage.
Property of the Revolution, my first book, has won 1st place in a number of awards and was shortlisted in two international writing competitions, the 2023 Restless Book’s New Immigrant Writing Prize and the 2022 Cintas Creative Writing Fellowship.
The best prize is when readers tell me that Property of the Revolution took them to a place they’d never been and didn’t want to leave: the home of a loving, brave, multigenerational immigrant family. They tell me they’ve gained a deeper understanding of the immigrant and refugee experience. That’s the dream I had for the book, the gift I wanted to share with my readers.
After forty years in the Boston area, I recently moved to southern New Hampshire with my family and two Havanese pups, Luna and Beny Moré. When I’m not writing, I love birdwatching, floating on Lake Winnipesaukee, and digging in my garden.
Join Ana on Substack at CubaCurious
CubaCurious is my attempt to do my bit for my native homeland and to help fill the news gap I see in my adopted homeland. I want to keep the spotlight on the plight of political prisoners and give you a view of what average Cubans’ lives are like.
