A review by tensy
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

3.0

While I enjoyed her descriptions of life in Pre-Castro Cuba, I was not very engaged with the characters in this book. My family left Cuba in 1962, soon after Castro took over the government. Kushner's descriptions of life on the island are very realistic and really give you a sense of the place, its food, heat, vegitation and the variety of people living in Cuba in the 1950s. I think she is attempting too much in this novel and when she spends time describing the revolutionaries, she loses the momentum in the story and its characters.