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While the stories and resettlement patterns of Cubans who have left their home island have been widely documented, the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied. In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida Lopez explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents.

Soulfully researched and elegantly written, the personal and the critical converge into a reading of Cuban American memoirs by one-and-a-halfers, those in a generation who left the island in childhood and early adolescence. Eliana S. Rivero, author of Discursos desde la diaspora
Timely and salient. In addition to tracing the trajectory of narratives of return, this study puts into relief the idea that there is no singular process of return. Andrea O Reilly Herrera, author of Cuban Artists across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent against the House
Outstanding. Lopez s...

Witty and humorously written in colloquial Cuban, One hundred bottles in a wall (2002), anatomy of a double murder, takes place in the '90s Havanna, amidst the crisis provoked by the collapse of the socialist bloc. Zeta -Zee- main character and narrator, who manages to survive by illicit means, recounts her relation with Moises, former judge of the Supreme Court whose story relates to the crash of a world and the fall of the gods, the collapse of utopia. With Zeta and her friend Linda -a thriller writer- we delve into a marginal underground world, unheard of in touristic guides to Cuba....