Take Me with You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416559528)

An evocative and unforgettable memoir from award-winning journalist Carlos Fr?s about his journey to Cuba where he retraces his family's history and encounters the realities of Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule.

Carlos Fr?s, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in Cuba--merely ghosts on the other end of a telephone.

Until Fidel Castro fell ill.

Sent to Cuba by his newspaper as the country began closing to foreign journalists in August 2006, Fr?s begins the secret journey of a lifetime--twelve days in the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, spectacular, and unforgettable memoir.

Take Me With You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the forbidden country of his ancestry for the first time. Fr?s provides a fresh view of Cuba, devoid of overt political commentary, focusing instead on the gritty, tangible lives of the people living in Castro's Cuba. Fr?s takes in the island nation of today and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history. The story creates lasting and unexpected ripples within his family on both sides of the Florida Straits--and on the author himself.

Author: Carlos Frias
ISBN-10: 1416559523
ISBN-13: 9781416559528
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.52w x 0.75d