dance company, One World Dance Theater. Rebe collaborates with native artists in Cuba and South America, has been featured in Latina Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune and on Fox and ABC News. The recipient of an Ohio Individual Excellence award, Huntman has received support for this book from the Ohio State University, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Playa, Hambidge Center, and Brush Creek Foundation. She lives in Delaware, Ohio and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Huntman's new book is My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle.
At Lit Hub the author tagged "seven richly-rendered memoirs, ... each offers up its own distinct lens on the people and stories that make up the dynamic and ever-changing landscape that is Cuba." One title on the list:
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American HistoryRead about another book on Huntman's list.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, Cuba: An American History tells the sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the U.S., from before the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the death of Fidel Castro and beyond. While technically not a traditional memoir, I include this book because it provides such a comprehensive history of the island and because the author’s intent in writing it is so deeply personal.
Born in Havana between the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Ferrer spent decades reconstructing the island’s past, and her own. Or as she writes: “I began translating Cuba for Americans and the United States for Cubans. Then I used all that to see myself, my family, and my own home—the United States—with different eyes.”
The Page 99 Test: Cuba: An American History.
--Marshal Zeringue
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