Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

Carlos Eire

400 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growin...

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Moods

reflective 71%
emotional 64%
sad 57%
informative 50%
dark 35%
challenging 28%
adventurous 21%
funny 21%
hopeful 14%
inspiring 14%
lighthearted 14%
tense 14%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 26%
fast 6%

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3.69

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