Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles

Florida Historical Society Samuel Proctor Award

Rare accounts of Cuban migration in the words of the exiles themselves

Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migration that changed the two countries and transformed the lives ...