Miami
Book description
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.
It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow…
Why read it?
1 author picked Miami as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In riveting prose and masterly reporting, Joan Didion describes the two profoundly different and separate cultures of Miami, a city of Cuban exiles and racial tension with a long history of fast money and luxury living.
This analysis of the politics of immigration and exile told with passion and drama is as relevant today as it was in the 1980s.
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