Julia Cooke is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba. One of her six favorite books about Cuba, as shared at The Daily Beast:MiamiRead about the other books on the list.
Joan Didion
Contemporary Cuba can’t be fully understood without examining Miami. In Miami, the grandmaster of immersive, observational, intellectual reporting pulls the city and its Cuban-American population, their hopes, fears, and passions, into delicious, lyrical, Didion-esque focus.
--Marshal Zeringue