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Book Reviews
Forget Ricky Ricardo. Forget Godfather II. Forget Hemingway. If you want to know what it was like to live in Havana during the 1950’s, Tony Mendoza’s absorbing novel is your best guide. Lively, sexy and beautifully written, A Cuban Summer is not only a sensitive (and often hilarious) coming of age tale but a splendid portrait of a culture and a way of life that would soon disappear, perhaps forever. Once I began the novel, I couldn’t put it down.
Gustavo Perez Firmat - author, Life on the Hyphen