Great book. This story, the characters, the history and passion for Cuba, will stay with me for awhile. The book alternates between Elisa in 1959 and her granddaughter Marisol in present day. Elisa's family is part of wealthy land-owning Cuba in the 1950s and flees Cuba at the time of revolution when Battista flees and Fidel Castro sweeps in. But Elisa has met and fallen in love with a revolutionary. Sixty years later Marisol returns with her grandmother's ashes to scatter them in her beloved Cuba. She meets and falls in love with her own revolutionary. The history and politics of Cuba told in a fictional story. So interesting! Add the passion of the Cuban people and the history/politics of the Cuban-American relationship and the Cuban exiles in Miami. Makes me want to read more about Cuba and visit there myself.
