Books by Margarita Engle

Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.

Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.