![]() ![]() Your family’s stories played a role in inspiring Next Year in Havana. When I finished writing that scene, I returned to Next Year in Havana, but once I knew I wanted to write a book about Beatriz, I really saw her character take shape. I had this clear image of her standing on a balcony, exiled from her home, filled with rage and a thirst for vengeance. She was such a fascinating character, and I heard her voice so vividly in my head, her story demanding to be told. I actually stopped writing that book so I could write the first chapter of When We Left Cuba. How did you decide to write a book with just Beatriz’s story?Īs soon as I introduced Beatriz in Next Year in Havana, I knew I had to tell her story. But she was a relatively minor character in your first book, Next Year in Havana. She vows to seek revenge for her countrymen’s pain by targeting the man who engineered it all: Fidel Castro.īeatriz crackles on the page - she has so much spark and independence of spirit. ![]() Now, uprooted from Cuba and adrift in Florida’s not entirely welcoming social scene, the beautiful and firebrand oldest daughter of the family, Beatriz Perez, determines that she will right Cuba’s wrongs. ![]() Chanel Cleeton’s second historical novel, When We Left Cuba, returns to the dynamic Perez family she explored in her bestselling Next Year in Havana. ![]()
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