Anna Veltfort
Forfatter af Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba
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Anna Veltfort is a graphic designer and illustrator who lives in New York.
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Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa… af Anna Veltfort
Note: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019. I also accessed a digital review copy through Edelweiss.
An American lesbian comes of age in 1960s Cuba under its revolutionary but homophobic regime. It should be a fascinating story, but if this book were a person they would have an affectless face and a monotone voice. The narration just drones on and on dropping dozens of names of minor historical figures and mentioning lots of government departments and programs, numbing me to the human story squeezed tightly between the giant captions with Fidel Castro's speeches. Frankly, by my reading, the emotional highpoint of the book seems to come when Veltfort gets a refrigerator with an icemaker rather than any of her farewells to family or lovers.
Passable history, disappointing memoir.… (mere)
Passable history, disappointing memoir.… (mere)
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