TITLE (TÍTULO): Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

AUTHOR (AUTOR):Ojito, Mirta

PRICE (PRECIO): $24.95

ISBN: 1594200416

Description: The book is a vibrant, moving memoir of one family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Mirta Ojito was born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees. Over five months in 1980 some 125,000 Cubans made the trip from Mariel Harbor to South Florida. Their chaotic and widely publicized exodus dominated American politics for most of the year and forever changed the Cuban emigre community. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Mariel boatlift, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito's new memoir, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of Cuban Exodus ($24.95), illuminates this historical event through the story of her own family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Finding Mañana gives us Ojito's own story, with all the determination and intelligence that carried her through the boatlift and made her a prizewinning journalist. Saturday, June 11, at Libreria Universal, Mirta Ojito shares her engrossing and enduring story, amidst the tumultous politics of the twentieth century. The signing begins at 1 pm, the store is located on the corner of 31st avenue and S.W. 8 St.