Today, we have an exclusive cover reveal of Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton ( A | BN | K | G | AB ). Trust us, you’re going to want to see this cover.
This book is “equal parts love story, historical fiction, and love letter to Cuba.” Though we do have some bad news: it doesn’t come out until February 2018. WOE!
Better get your library holds and preorders in now!
Here’s the official book description:
A young woman travels to Havana to honor her late grandmother’s wishes–and discovers her family’s greatest secret, hidden since the Cuban revolution. A mesmerizing novel about two generations of Cuban-American women.
In 2017, freelance writer Marisol Ferrera travels to Cuba to honor her late grandmother’s wishes to return her ashes to her homeland. There Marisol recovers an unexpected piece of her family’s history–a box buried in the backyard of her family’s former mansion in Havana. Hidden for decades, it unearths her grandmother’s greatest secret.
In 1958, Elisa Perez, the daughter of one of the wealthiest sugar barons in Cuba, meets a young lawyer at a party in Havana. Their attraction is instant, their chemistry undeniable, but they’re caught on opposite sides of a growing political movement. Unable to deny their love, they begin a clandestine affair while all around them Cuba’s fractures cut deeper and deeper, violence spilling throughout the country.
Now, as Marisol grapples with her own Cuban identity, she must navigate a perilous political climate and a growing attraction to a man with secrets of his own. And as more family history comes to light, the past threatens to collide with the present, and Marisol will discover the true meaning of courage.
Now are you ready for the cover?
Are you sure?
Really, really sure?
What do you think? Gorgeous, right?
You might recognize Chanel Cleeton’s name from her Capitol Confessions series, or the Wild Aces romances. This book is a little different, and a little personal, too: according to her bio, she “grew up on stories of her family’s exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution.”
Are you excited for Next Year in Havana? Bummed about the wait time? Let us know your thoughts on the cover in the comments!
That is a beautiful cover!
You are horrible teases!!
Lord, what a cover! And such an intriguing, and timely, story. I will be all over this one.
Love it
Stunning! ❤️
I was not familiar with this author and now her entire Capitol Confessions series may or may not have one-clicked their way to my Kindle.
The cover is nice, I guess – pretty; it’s the description that grabbed me. I’m a big fan of stories that are divided like this, between present and past. It’s one of the things I loved most about Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation series. Plus the Cuban setting? Sign me up!
Why is half of her head missing?
lol they do have a thing about cutting off half our heads, don’t they?
this reminds me a little tiny bit of Daína Chaviano’s Isla de los amores infinitos/Island of Eternal Love, which is a multigenerational Cuban/Cuban-American family saga and which I read in grad school and loved. Which is to say—totally stoked for this one!