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

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.5

This book was amazing for me to read. I've started a goal this year of reading at least 2 nonfiction books about my motherland's history my grandparents didn't teach me. Learning about some Cuban history through Carlos' magical eyes was both nostalgic and heartbreaking. Sometimes I felt like I was in the streets of Havana and Malecon with him, feeling the waves on his skin when he drove through the beach with his father, and the sun beating him down on the church steps. 

I will say that the writing prose is very nonlinear and can sometimes be a little confusing if you're not completely engrossed in the plot. He jumps through timeskips within the text with no warning.

Carlos was also too young to recall a lot of President Batista's regime, and did not go into extensive detail on what this was like except for little things here and there. He recalls a lot of that first few months to a year of Fidel Castro taking over, how suddenly and shockingly everything changed.

My only complaint and why I did not rate it a 5/5 were the
pages of religion... And I mean pages. As someone who is not very religious, it was a chore to read through.
However, I understand this is his novel and his life and his viewpoints, so I can't say much against it. I would still recommend this book to anyone. 
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