The Real Fidel
In a flash nearly 200,000 Cuban refugees understood that we’d lost our homeland and had better get used to life en la Yuma. We packed for six weeks, and we stayed for six decades.
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Robert Arellano
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Robert Arellano wrote this essay as a literary arts fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in November. His seventh novel, Havana Libre, will be published later this year from Akashic Books.
States of Mystery
The solution is that there is no good answer. There are no rules. A family member is lost. Friends disappear.