Finding Manana -Signed and inscribed A Memoir Of A Cuban Exodus

Mirta Ojito

ISBN 10: 1594200416 / ISBN 13: 9781594200410

Published by The Penguin Press, NY, 2005

About this Item

The Penguin Press, NY, 2005, 302 pgs. First/First in Very Good+/Near Fine condition with evidence of light reading, a bit of glue residue to top edge near spine and some soiling to dj (please review photos). Otherwise tight, square, clean and unclipped. The Author has Signed, inscribed and dated in the year of publication on the title page. Memoir of the author and her family leaving Cuba in the Mariel Boatlift as a 16 year old never to return and her personally dealing with it since. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Tan and orange boards with gold lettering.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding Manana -Signed and inscribed A Memoir Of A Cuban Exodus
• Publisher: The Penguin Press, NY
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594200416
• ISBN 13: 9781594200410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First/First.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir/Biography

About this title

Synopsis

A New York Times reporter recounts her childhood in Cuba before the events of the Mariel boatlift rendered her a teenage refugee in Miami, describing the Cuban revolution, the beliefs about el norte that prompted her family's immigration, and her prize-winning journalism career. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

Mirta Ojito was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1980 in the Mariel boatlift. She has received the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Award for best foreign reporting, and she shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for her contribution to the series "How Race Is Lived in America." Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, edited by Anthony Lewis. Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. She writes for The New York Times from Miami. Lewis. Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. She writes for The New York Times from Miami.