The Maids of Havana
, by Perez Sarduy, Pedro- ISBN: 9781449070700 | 1449070701
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/23/2010
Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami... A history full circle?