What happens when the country you love forces you out with just 48 hours to abandon everything you’ve ever known? Join us and gain a deeper, more personal perspective on the refugee experience.
Join us for a conversation with author and essayist Ana Hebra Flaster as we discuss her memoir, Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town.
Ana Hebra Flaster was six years old when her working-class family was kicked out of their Havana barrio for opposing communism. Once devoted revolutionaries themselves but disillusioned by the Castro government’s repressive tactics, they fled to the U.S. The permanent losses they suffered — of home, country, and loved ones, all within forty-eight hours — haunted her multigenerational family as they reclaimed their lives and freedom in 1967 New Hampshire. There, they fed each other stories of their scrappy barrio to resurrect their lost world and fortify themselves for a daunting task: building a new life in a foreign land.
Presented in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
This program will be recorded.
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