Arts and Literature of Cuba

only one: King of Cuba (2015). It’s a darkly comic tale about Fidel Castro and an old Cuban exile living in Miami who dreams of exacting revenge on the dictator.

Text-Dependent Questions

1. What’s the title of Reinaldo Arenas’s autobiography? 2. What job does Carlos Eire hold? 3. What did Cristina García do before turning to fiction writing?

Research Project Carlos Eire was one of about 14,000 Cuban children who came to the United States without their parents as part of a program called Operation Peter Pan. Using the Internet or a library, research the history of that pro- gram. Then write a one-page report.

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