Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba

A top US diplomat's compelling memoir of her years in Cuba and the tumultuous relationship between the two countries: “Unparalleled insight.” —Culture Trip

After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations between the countries broke off. A thaw came in 1977 with the opening of a de facto embassy in Havana, the US Interests Section—where Vicki Huddleston would later serve under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.

In her memoir of a diplomat at work, she tells gripping stories of...