{"id":44461,"date":"2018-09-14T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44461"},"modified":"2018-09-07T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:27:58","slug":"our-woman-in-havana-reporting-castros-cuba-by-sarah-rainsford-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/our-woman-in-havana-reporting-castros-cuba-by-sarah-rainsford-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro\u2019s Cuba by Sarah Rainsford [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44284\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/Our-Woman-in-Havana-Sarah-Rainsford-BookDragon-1-523x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/Our-Woman-in-Havana-Sarah-Rainsford-BookDragon-1-523x800.jpg 523w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/Our-Woman-in-Havana-Sarah-Rainsford-BookDragon-1.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/>Two timely books titled <em>Our Woman in Havana<\/em> hit shelves this year: a memoir by U.S. diplomat Vicki Huddleston and this account by former BBC Cuba correspondent (2011-2014) Rainsford, who was \u201cguided by the writing of another English visitor seduced by Havana,\u201d novelist Graham Greene.<\/p>\n<p>A regular Cuba-returnee from her current Moscow posting, Rainsford uses Greene\u2019s 1958 <em>Our Man in Havana<\/em> as a loose narrative structure as she \u201cexplore[s] the making and the unmaking of Castro\u2019s Cuba.\u201d She intertwines her search for Greene\u2019s Havana during its pre-revolutionary decadence with glimpses into the life of the original, pioneering \u201cour woman in Havana,\u201d R. Hart Phillips, <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Cuba correspondent from 1937 to 1961, who obscured her gender in print with an initial.<\/p>\n<p>Rainsford reports her own challenges \u2013 labyrinthine access (or not) to officials, curtailed comings-and-goings, unreliable internet connection \u2013 and reveals illuminating tales shared (sometimes at great risk) by subjects, colleagues, and friends about overseas funding, growing private businesses, and plans and hopes for a still uncertain future. Rainsford confronts a country of enigmatic contradictions with eyes and heart wide open in this fascinating, enlightening read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Our-Woman-in-Havana-Reporting-Castro-s-Cuba-Sarah-Rainsford\/pid=9706707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221;<em> Booklist Online<\/em>, September 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two timely books titled Our Woman in Havana hit shelves this year: a memoir by U.S. diplomat Vicki Huddleston and this account by former BBC Cuba correspondent (2011-2014) Rainsford, who was \u201cguided by the writing of another English visitor seduced by Havana,\u201d novelist Graham Greene&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114,6775,107,20,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,7631,10,11,68,24,51,8071,28,8072,173],"class_list":["post-44461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british","category-cuban","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-our-woman-in-havana","tag-politics","tag-sarah-rainsford","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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