Isadora Tattlin
Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husbandâ€™s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result is a striking, rare glimpse into a tiny country of enormous splendor and squalor. Though the Tattlins are provided with a well-staffed Havana mansion, the store shelves are bare. On the streets, beggars plead for soap, not coins. A vet with few real medical supplies operates on a carved mahogany coffee table in a Louis XIVâ€“style drawing room. The people adore festivity, but Christmas trees are banned. And when Isadora hosts a dinner party whose guest list includes Fidel Castro himself, she observes the ultimate contradiction at the very heart of Cuba. Vividly capturing Cubaâ€™s simultaneously appalling and enchanting essence, ,Cuba Diaries, casts an irresistible spell and lifts the enigma of an island that is trapped in time, but not in spirit.
Travel,Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Biography Memoir
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana