By Chanel Cleeton
Touchdown Havana 2017. Marisol Ferrera, a freelance writer on assignment to write an American travel piece about Cuba, has a more heartfelt objective for her trip. She is fulfilling her grandmother Elisa’s last wishes to scatter her ashes across her beloved island.
While on her trip, Marisol unearths family secrets and a forbidden love that Elisa had to leave behind when she and her family fled during the Cuban revolution. Raised 90 miles away in Miami, Marisol was brought up on the romantic tales and rose-colored memories of her family’s Cuba. But now in visiting Cuba, Marisol colors in the lines of her grandmother’s previous life, coming closer to knowing the woman who raised her. While on this journey, Marisol herself finds love and heartache all her own and begins to color in the lines of her own identity as a Cuban American.
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