Finding Manana: A Memoir Of An Exodus - Hardcover

Ojito, Mirta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200416 ISBN 13: 9781594200410

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Synopsis

A New York Times reporter recounts her childhood in Cuba before the events of the Mariel boatlift rendered her a teenage refugee in Miami, describing the Cuban revolution, the beliefs about el norte that prompted her family's immigration, and her prize-winning journalism career. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Mirta Ojito was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1980 in the Mariel boatlift. She has received the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Award for best foreign reporting, and she shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for her contribution to the series "How Race Is Lived in America." Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, edited by Anthony Lewis. Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. She writes for The New York Times from Miami. Lewis. Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. She writes for The New York Times from Miami.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1594200416
• ISBN 13: 9781594200410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302