Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.

Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.

Anthony will be in conversation with his wife, Miriam Rodriguez DePalma, who was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba, the quirky, historic community on the other side of Havana where the families in The Cubans live and work.

About the author:
Anthony DePalma is the author of The Man Who Invented Fidel ; Here: A Biography of the New American Continent; and City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times focusing on Latin America for twenty-two years, and continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications.

Anthony DePalma, "The Cubans"