“I felt guilty for being the chosen one”: Ada Ferrer on her memoir about leaving Cuba

When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer’s mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision’s reverberations across generations of her family.

Sponsor Message

ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:

At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Adela Ferrer made an impossible decision. Her husband had fled Havana for New York, and she planned to take her two children and join him. But her first husband, still in Cuba, forbade her from taking their 9-year-old son. So she made

This post was originally published on this site

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Scroll to Top