This Is Cuba: An American Journalist under Castro’s Shadow by David Ariosto [in Booklist]
27 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Cuban, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
For a self-described “young American photojournalist who then boasted only pidgin Spanish,” David Ariosto’s arrival in Havana in 2009 on assignment for CNN was “the chance of a lifetime.” Determined to be “somehow different from those pink-faced tourists,” he’s quickly reduced to an epithet, yuma – street...