Her father was an extremely successful owner of numerous sugar plantations, so Beatriz and her sisters grew up in the lap of luxury. That book does provide the reader with a bit of Beatriz’s back story, but not having that information won’t negatively impact your ability to enjoy this novel.īeatriz Perez hates that her family was forced to leave Cuba when Fidel Castro came to power. Anna, the heroine of the previous book, is the younger sister of Beatriz, the focus of this one, but it’s not necessary to have read Next Year in Havana before diving into this one. Cleeton’s latest novel, When We Left Cuba, a companion piece to Next Year in Havana. I was completely captivated by both the setting and the story, so I was beyond pleased to pick up a review copy of Ms. The premise intrigued me, so I added it to my extremely sizable TBR pile, but didn’t actually get around to reading it until February of 2019. Late in 2018, I started hearing quite a bit of talk about Chanel Cleeton’s novel Next Year in Havana.
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