& TIM PADGETT
Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
A *Virtual* Evening with
ANTHONY DePALMA
& TIM PADGETT
discussing
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
(Viking, $28)
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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.
“For all that’s been written about revolutionary Cuba, I know of no book that more vividly describes the interior of the contemporary Cuban experience.” – Tom Gjelten, author of Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
ANTHONY R. DEPALMA is the author of The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. 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.
TIM PADGETT is the Americas editor for Miami NPR affiliate WLRN, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and their key relationship with South Florida.
Padgett has reported on Latin America for more than 30 years – including forNewsweek as its Mexico City bureau chief and for Time as its Latin America and Miami bureau chief – from the end of Central America’s civil wars to the current normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations. He has interviewed more than 20 heads of state.