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The House on G Street

A Cuban Family Saga

by Lisandro Perez
Zac Aleman
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Award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba's story through the lens of a single family: his own. The House on G Street is a unique depiction of one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century, told through generations of ancestors whose lives were shaped by dramatic historical forces.
Pérez disentangles the complex history by following his family's thread, imbuing political events with personal meaning. Their story begins with emigration to Cuba and follows the waning years of the colony. The end of Spanish rule gives way to pervasive American influence, and Perez's family turned to New York, as they adapted to the realities of a new republic with compromised sovereignty. His family learned to navigate the uneasy relationship between the US and Cuba, a relationship that was destined to end in dramatic fashion.
More than sixty years later, the Cuban Revolution resists receding into the past, sparking continued discussion, debate, and reinterpretation. There is a great deal that is known about the broad historical conditions that inexorably pushed Cuba towards revolution, but much less is known about the people who lived that dramatic history. It is a story that, if not recovered and told, will be lost, for Pérez's ancestors lived in a world that no longer exists, swept away by a tide of revolutionary change.

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    November 14, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9798350894134
      • File size: 236511 KB
      • Duration: 08:12:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Zac Aleman begins Perez's memoir tenderly as the author gazes at the house on G street that was his father's Cuban home. It's a formerly elegant building now moving toward ruin, a house that represents his past and that of many Cubans. So begins this ambitious memoir, which merges the personal and the political as it ranges from nineteenth-century Castilian Spain to revolutionary Cuba. Aleman's narration is just as ambitious. He smoothly recounts more than a century of tumult in a straightforward tone. His facility with the Spanish language adds to the presentation. Familial views of historical events shed light on the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. S.W. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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