Gustavo A Perez

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat ...

An immigrant from Cuba as a child, the author recounts growing up in Miami's Little Havana, his struggle to come to terms with American culture, his eventual estrangement from his family, and his feelings about his native country. Tour.

In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate h...

From Desi Arnaz and "I Love Lucy" to Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Cuban-Americans have conga'd and mambo'd their way into the heart of popular culture in the United States. This engaging book, which mixes the author's own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how ...

Some people would call Frank Guerra fussy, even compulsive--but they're wrong. He simply believes in perfection. And Frank believes in romantic love. He believes in love so strongly that he's willing to divorce his faithful wife Marta, lose his old friends, and even leave behind his daugther Emily--...

In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate h...

Reflexiones sobre el exilio, el lenguaje y la identidad, 2000.

poetry, Cuban/American, some English/some Spanish