Letters from Cuba
- ISBN-10
- 0525516492
- ISBN-13
- 9780525516491
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08-31
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Ruth Behar
Description
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
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