Luis becomes Marisol’s tour guide and they become close. When Marisol lands in Cuba, the grandson of Elisa’s childhood best friend greets her at the airport. Marisol is a writer and traveled under the guise of writing an article about Cuba’s travel industry. Marisol, Elisa’s granddaughter takes a trip to Cuba to learn about her family’s heritage and spread her grandmother’s remains where her grandmother loved the most. Unfortunately, Pedro is fighting the war in Cuba and would not be accepted by Elisa’s family, therefore, their relationship is kept secret. They have 4 daughter’s and Elisa Perez had just met Pedro who she quickly fell in love with.

Perez realize that to save their family fortune and legacy they will have to move to leave Cuba when Castro threatens to take over their’s and many other’s livelihoods. Describing the Perez family history through Marisol’s visit to Cuba provides the reader a real sense of how it would feel to learn about one’s heritage through travel of where her family originated. Marisol, the granddaughter of one of the daughters of the Senior Perez takes a trip to Cuba in 2017 to spread the remains of her grandmother in the country her grandmother always considered Home.Ĭhanel Cleeton does a wonderful job telling the story of the Perez family during the time in Cuba when Fidel Castro takes over as President. When the Perez family realize that to save their family legacy they will have to leave their beloved Cuba, not everyone is happy. Next Year in Havana is the story of a Cuban family who find themselves threatened by new President Fidel Castro in the late 1950s.

Next year in havana book