Revolutions: From La Habana to Harlem, A Novel
When a young AfroCuban girl departs La Habana in the 1960s after the Castro-led Revolution with the beloved grandmother she calls Mamá, she arrives in a bitterly cold Manhattan and meets the mother who abandoned her at birth. Ripped from one world and forced to find her place in another, Evolín battles racism, sexism, and loss in a multicultural quest for belonging and independence.
Critical Acclaim
“Immediate and honest”
“Sensual”
“Heartbreaking”
NEW YORK TIMES
“These pages weave color and sound and taste together beautifully, as they swirl in a child’s experience”
“The first novel to explore the Black Cuban experience in an exciting and touching journey from La Habana to Harlem”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Masterful job of recreating a child’s world”
WASHINGTON POST
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A brief introduction to Cuba from an American perspective.
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I was fortunate enough to have been born in Cuba at the beginning of the Revolution and then to have grown up in Harlem and North Manhattan during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The best of all possible worlds!
After completing a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Literature/Writing from Columbia University and a PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, specialising in African diaspora literature, I taught at NYU, Vassar, Princeton, Hunter, New Jersey City University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Twenty years later, I left academia to devote myself to writing.
This is my first novel. While the work was in progress, I performed excerpts at Marist Summer Writing Institute, Uptown Poets Ink at The Cloisters, Teachers and Writers Collaborative Center for Imaginative Writing, the Nuyorican Poets Café, and Women Writers of the African Diaspora in Harlem.
Where do I end and where does my art begin? All I know is that we have grown together. –Yvette Louis