Robin’s Reviews > Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy > Status Update

The last few chapter tie together his childhood in Cuba and his forced exile to the US as an adolescent, without parents, privilege, or even food. As he put it, a 45 minute flight changed him from a white boy to a spic.

387 pages total. Though it's a nonchronological memoir, there are still plenty of details to fill in about how Castro took over Cuba and why the author had to leave it.