"Elena Maza's fascinating odyssey is a story at once heart-rending and inspiring, exploring with the utmost candor the pain of exile and resettlement and the ongoing conversation with Cuba and Cuban identity. It carries the power of the personal testimony and the sweeping scope of the family saga."--from the foreword by Miguel A. Bretos, Smithsonian Institution

From a child refugee of Operation Pedro Pan, a mission similar to the Kindertransport of World War II and the only political exodus ever of unaccompanied children in the Western Hemisphere, comes this touching tale of...