A HUNDRED FIRES IN CUBA
Author John Thorndike talks with Big Blend Radio about his latest novel ‘A Hundred Fires in Cuba,’ a complex love story that’s set in Havana and Miami in the late ‘50s, during the Cuban Revolution.
In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a ten-week affair which ends when Immigration arrests and deports him—but by then Clare Miller is pregnant.
Few Americans know the name Camilo Cienfuegos. All Cubans do. In real life he was the most charismatic of Fidel Castro’s commanders, until his small plane vanished only months after Fidel came to power. In this novel, Clare must choose between the stable Cuban businessman she has married and her first love, Camilo. Though a true revolutionary, Camilo likes to dance and drink. He likes women, and too many women like him. His courage is legendary, yet when he comes to visit Clare he’s afraid of his own daughter and her moods. Clare worries that he’ll never make a good parent, but she cannot resist him.
John Thorndike is the author of the novels, “Anna Delaney’s Child” and “The Potato Baron”, and the two memoirs “Another Way Home” and “The Last of His Mind: A Year in The Shadow of Alzheimer’s.” More at www.JohnThorndike.com.
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