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jeninmotion's review
4.0
Divorced from the historical question of Cuba, this is a very intense coming-of-age story with stark, memorable art. Of course you can't really divorce a story about a disillusioned Cuban revolutionary who eventually flees to Miami from context, can you? So of course the question is how does one put a story like this in context? A lot of people who fled Cuba were the folks who had done their fellow Cubans wrong, but pretending Castro never did any human rights violations is tankie nonsense, much like the health care and literacy gains of the island are real.
But back to Lockpez, it does mean that when you're reading this semi-autobiographical story, you do wonder "is this basically true?" and "is there important context being left out?" and that's kind of where I was left with the book.
But back to Lockpez, it does mean that when you're reading this semi-autobiographical story, you do wonder "is this basically true?" and "is there important context being left out?" and that's kind of where I was left with the book.
mikmak's review
3.0
O.K, quick read. Does shed some light on Cuba, a subject which in most high schools ends and begins at the Cuban Missile crisis.
loppear's review
3.0
Personal account of an artist coming of age at the start of the Cuban Revolution, enthusiastic embrace of the social change, and eventual disillusionment. There are some very graphic violent moments and imagery, and a conflicted unease throughout.
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