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Next Year in Havana
Next Year in Havana | Chanel Cleeton
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.
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Susanita
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September selection for #12booksof2023

Andrew65 I like the look of this one. 3mo
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NatalieR
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Next Year in Havana is a love story. It‘s not just a romantic story of people falling in love, it‘s a story about one‘s love of country, culture, history, and family. Chanel Cleeton delivered a fascinating first book to The Cuba Saga series.

Full review at https://abookandadog.com

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TheEllieMo
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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Susanita
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1. So far it‘s the tagged book…
2. 30th wedding anniversary (Who‘d have thunk it?)
#two4tuesday

Read4life Congratulations! 🍾🎉 6mo
TheSpineView Congrats! Thanks for playing 6mo
kspenmoll Happy anniversary! 6mo
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Susanita
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I‘m woefully behind on #ReadingTheAmericas2023 but have at least now completed #Cuba … one of the countries for which I had multiple options. The dual timeline worked for this story. Though I already knew much about the situation past and present, putting human faces to it was very touching.

Librarybelle You‘re still doing well! I‘ve not read as many for this challenge yet. 6mo
BarbaraBB I am behind schedule as well 🤷🏻‍♀️ 6mo
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Bec_lectic
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So this one just didn‘t do much for me. I like a good historical novel that you actually learn something from but this story just kind of dragged on for me with a little too much detail. It took about 2 months to read and I just kinda left it on the back burner for in between books. I saw there is a spin off from this book from another perspective..I think one perspective was enough 🤨

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Hooked_on_books
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Marisol travels to #Cuba to spread her grandmother Elisa‘s ashes and tries to better understand the country from which her family was exiled. I really liked the Cuban history and politics here as well as the dual storylines to enhance the perspective, but the author tried much too hard to make the stories parallel, pushed more romance than I cared for, and repeated certain phrases far too often.

#ReadingAmericas2023

Soubhiville Good morning Bindi and Holly 🐶🙂. 8mo
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Hooked_on_books @Soubhiville Good morning Soubhi! 👋 8mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain @dabbe She was not having it! 😂 8mo
Librarybelle I have a copy of this and plan to read it for the challenge as well. 8mo
iread2much What a handsome doggie! 8mo
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paisleyjess
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A lot of politics. Two mirrored love stories, decades apart. It inspires hope amongst sadness.

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ChantalReads
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This book was beautiful. All at once parallel, connected love stories, mystery, historical, and modern. I know some things about Cuba (I saw DD Havana Nights, after all), but this glimpse into the complex politics and history of the island was perfectly captured in a compelling and engaging read.

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Octoberwoman
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I loved this book so much. So much! More than I anticipated. The characters are so well written, and the descriptions of Cuba are evocative. The author really makes Cuba come alive, like a separate character of the book. here are books that are good, that are novels. And then there are books that wonderful, that are literature. NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA is literature, and I‘m very eager to find the rest of the author‘s books.

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DLQBOOKNERD
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⭐️⭐️⭐️

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bio_chem06
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I decided to do some things out of my comfort zone. A celebrity book list AND audiobooks…. Not my typical things. But as I‘m listening, the protagonist keeps saying, “he‘s married”, responding to her forbidden attraction to this man. But I‘m just sitting in the car saying back, “he‘s your cousin!”. Did I only half listen and completely misunderstand Louis relationship? Being married is the last of her problems with that one🤦🏻‍♀️

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Mshookquilts
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You want to read this. Tense and moving, we look into the lives and loves of those who survived the Cuban Revolution and then their ancestors after Fidel Castro died.

FeatherV Omg you finally read it!!!!it‘s amazing right?!?! 2y
Mshookquilts @FeatherV Definitely! I enjoyed it very much! Thank you for recommending it & loaning it to me. 2y
FeatherV @Mshookquilts absolutely! I‘m so happy you loved it too 2y
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AmyK1
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This is a light pick for me. The story was good and I liked the characters but there was a LOT of dialogue lecturing on the history of Cuba and it got to be a bit much.

SilversReviews I enjoyed this book!! 2y
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I won this copy from Reece Witherspoon‘s book box. Every book she has picked,that I have read so far, has been good and this book was great. The history and culture of Cuba felt like a character and essential to the plot. #foodandlit @Texreader @Catsandbooks @Butterfinger

Texreader What luck! And glad you liked it. I‘ll definitely be reading more from this author 2y
Catsandbooks Wonderful! 2y
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DivineDiana
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Dual timelines/ Havana,1958 and Miami, 2017. The story of the prominent Perez Family,sugar company owners.Elisa, one of the debutante daughters,falls in love with a rebel in Castro‘s Army.When the President flees the country, so must the family,to start a new life in Miami. When Elisa dies,her granddaughter returns to Cuba with her ashes. Incite from the Cuban perspective about what happened in the past and currently. #foodandlit #cuba
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Texreader Excellent review 2y
DivineDiana @Texreader Thank you, Karen! 🙂 (edited) 2y
Catsandbooks This is on my TBR! 2y
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Melismatic
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This is a narrow Pick but I really loved the nuances about Cuban history and the push-pull for exiled Cubans. The second love story felt forced to me, especially the ending.

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DivineDiana
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Current audiobook. #foodandlit #cuba

Texreader Looking forward to your review! 2y
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Clwojick
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Next Year in Havana 4/5 ⭐️

Up next is In the Dream House.

#ThingsinCommon Authors first names start with C

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GreenGrl87
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Our next pick for #ItsLit VBC!

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Jensol77
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I‘m just at the part where Marisol learns Pablo is her grandfather.
This book…💔💔💔

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Jensol77
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1. I Must Betray You
2. Not yet
3. Tagged…I think I just figured out what the title means

@Eggs

Eggs Great books! Thanks for joining in 🥳📚🥰 2y
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Eggs
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Happy Wednesday 💗 Here are your questions ⬆️ and here are my answers ⬇️

1️⃣ I like to peruse the bookish box subscriptions online—there are all kinds ranging from $28 to $hundreds per box. Etsy has bookish box sellers too.
2️⃣ I set a lower goal on GR this year:350 instead of my usual 550
3️⃣ the tagged is HF dual timeline - 4⭐️

#wondrouswednesday

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for the tag!! 550 books! 😳😊 2y
TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 550... and here I thought 180 was something. 🤯 2y
SilversReviews I like my blog….LOL!! The websites I like the best are Goodreads and NetGalley!! 2y
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hclaird
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I feel guilty cheating on my school textbooks with a physical novel but for whatever reason an audiobook feels fine.

I‘m not much for romance as a genre but I am really enjoying this book so far. Cleeton does a wonderful job expressing the realities of Cuban politics without glossing over the painful truths of the country‘s history. This is a novel where multigenerational families, romance, socioeconomics and deep loyalty for La Patria collide.

Kimberlone Yay want to read!! 2y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Eggs 💝📚💖 2y
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rebbyj
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Good story

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laurabilly13
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A Reese‘s book club book so I have high hopes, looking forward to learning a bit more about the Cuban revolution too! I tend to pick books that are set in World War Two as I‘m so familiar with that period of history, so lots to learn here.
#nextyearinhavana #chanelcleeton

Didn‘t want to put this down. Great couple twists I did not see coming!

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Sgraf307
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MonthlyBookClub entered 3y
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Laughterhp
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Never posted a review for this one. This was recommended to me by BookRiot for #GetTBR

I really enjoyed this book. I‘m embarrassed to say I didn‘t know much about Cuba‘s history. Set in 1959 and 2017.

As always, I enjoyed the past storyline more than the present day one but overall really liked this book.

Honestly, I‘m more excited to read Beatriz‘s story but am glad this book put that one on my radar.

rachelsbrittain I've been reading everything I can get my hands on by Chanel Cleeton lately! 3y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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As close as I could think of!

#Spain
#JulyJourneys

Eggs On my TBR mountain 🏔 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs mine too!!! 😂 3y
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Catsandbooks
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Tanya you are so wonderful! I love everything! I already know where I'm going to hang up the sign. 🍉 I love how we got each other the same book 😂 The book sleeve is gorgeous! I love stickers, I have a HUGE collection. Also I've never seen those watermelon candies before so I'm super excited to try them! Thank you for everything!!! 🥰 #sliceofsummerswap

tdrosebud I'm so glad you're happy! I wanted to say something about the book in my post, but it would have spoiled the surprise. You'll have to let me know how the candies are. I'm sure you noticed that I went with mostly watermelon stuff and I happened to see those at Walgreens and grabbed them. I've never heard of them either. Enjoy! 3y
Catsandbooks @tdrosebud Great minds think alike! And I'll let you know how the candy is! 💕 3y
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rachelsbrittain
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Split between Elisa Perez's experiences during the Cuban Revolution just before Castro took over and her family was forced to flee and her granddaughter's return to the island in modern day to scatter her families ashes. The lives of the two Perez women take surprisingly similar paths even if decades apart and it's another beautiful exploration of the history of Cuba and Cubans in exile living with their love and anger from afar.

4 stars / ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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rachelsbrittain
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1. Next Year in Havana and The Other Black Girl

2. The Taking of Jake Livingston

3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, One Last Stop, The Ones We're Meant to Find, Malibu Rising, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Amari and the Night Brothers

#WeekendReads

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Laughterhp
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Put together a physical #BookSpin list! It just turned out I had 85% of the books I‘m going to try and read.

I‘m looking forward to all these books. I‘m just waiting for July to show up!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! A few of those are on my TBR as well. Spindle's End is one of my very favorites, but it's a little too rambly for many people haha I bought it on a trip back in the early 2000s and it's become a book that I reread on almost every vacation I've taken since then - it's definitely my most well-traveled book!!! 3y
Laughterhp @TheAromaofBooks I got it a library book sale for like a dollar a few years ago and I‘m determined to try and pick it up in July! Lol 3y
TheAromaofBooks If parentheses annoy you, don't even bother trying to read it!! 😂 3y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Nute Lovely photo, Misty!🙂 3y
Eggs Pretty pretty photo 🌷💖🌹! Still haven‘t read this... 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Nute thank you!! 🌷 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs me either 🙈 3y
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JenReadsAlot
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I really enjoyed this and would love to visit Cuba some day. Finished after a very warm day hiking in Arches! #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

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Ravenclawsbookshelf
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Latest book haul!! Plans are: Next Year in Havana ( current read), When We Left Cuba, Anne of Green Gables, and finally The Downstairs Girl. I am loving the mix of Historical and Contemporary Fiction. I love Marisol and Elisa as characters already.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
I finally got around to reading this lovely story. I listened to the audiobook and the narrators did a fabulous job. I hope the other books in the series are just as enjoyable.

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jessijames
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1. Absolutely!
2. No way! I would never be able to focus.

#Two4Tuesday

@TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 💙🎧💜📖 3y
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beautifulcrevice
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pretty good audiobook! not sure i would‘ve been able to get through it if i actually ‘read‘ it since historical fiction isn‘t really my jam buuuuut i perhaps am a little hooked💃❤️🇨🇺 i‘m game for a series! #nextyearinhavana #reesebookclub #audible

mavey When We Left Cuba is even more beautiful!💖 3y
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Jeannineth
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This has been on my TBR for too long. Today is your Day!

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SLSbooks
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So I haven‘t been to Cuba. If I had (or was planning on it) I would recommend reading this. But since my reality is what it is, this book just falls short for me. I do understand that Cuba is a country that has seen too many struggles and misses at freedom, but when the characters continue to have the same conversations throughout the book on these struggles, over and over again - they lose me. I skimmed over pages of text and didn‘t miss a thing.

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Dcueto
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Y‘all know I love my Reese picks! Also, having grown up in Miami, being married to a Cuban and having visited Cuba, I love the familiarity I feel as I read

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Maggie_Reads
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1. Next Year In Havana by Chanel Cleeton

2. Haven‘t read anything else in December. Too busy prepping house for sale.

3. When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads