Next Year in Havana: Reese's Book Club
The July pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.
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Would have rated it higher but I didn’t like the quick love timeline and overused pregnancy trope. Otherwise, I enjoyed the dual timelines and the imagery.
I love learning about a part of history through the eyes of fictional characters. Historical novels give us the human dimensions of emotion, romance, fear, and hope. Next Year in Havana doesnât disappoint and the current day storyline is as fascinating as the late 1950âs storyline. I am hoping that her next novel, When We Left Cuba, will give even more insight into the rise and rule of Fidel Castro.
The book is amezing.The words,the experience wow. It's more emotional and moreover I feel like it was my biography actually
Interesting look into Cuban history as well as modern Cuba. Honestly, I don't know much about the topic, so I read it as a first foray. I took everything with a pretty big grain of salt and tried to understand that for so many people, emotions on this topic run deep. My issues with the book were the pacing of the romance and how the author tried to address every perspective every time. It often felt like, "well, one group feels this way *sage nodding* but another group feels this way *sager nodding* and I just have a lot of feelings". It definitely kept everybody but one of the characters out of trouble. Very middle-of-the-road. And that's how I'd describe this book as a whole. Very middle-of-the-road.
I can't believe how emotional this made me.
The dual timeline and how it all clashes into one point. Just wow. This was a wonderful story.
The dual timeline and how it all clashes into one point. Just wow. This was a wonderful story.
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