Book-reading, Signing, and U.S.-Cuba Policy Discussion. Jeanne Lemkau will present her book Lost and Found in Cuba

Fri  3/4  7pm-8pm
Book-reading, Signing, and U.S.-Cuba Policy Discussion

Co-sponsored by: Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Bookstore, Mary Beth Bishop Co-ordinator

Author Jeanne Lemkau will present her book Lost and Found in Cuba: A Tale of Midlife Rebellion

This will be followed by an update on Cuba policy by Mavis Anderson, Senior Policy Analyst for Cuba, Latin America Working Group.

Lost and Found in Cuba was featured in the recently published Special Issue of Worldview Magazine honoring the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps and published by  the National Peace Corps Association. Jeanne served as a PC volunteer in Nicaragua long before she discovered Cuba. 

What readers are saying. . .

. . . full of beautifully-written, yummy encounters with Cubans of a myriad of stripes—religious pilgrims, taxi drivers, government bureaucrats, community doctors, a poet-landlord, a convent-full of nuns, a Santeria priestess, the oldest Communist in Cuba, and even Fidel himself.

Sara Taber Mansfield
Author, Dusk on the Campo

I began the book because of my foreign policy interests, but I finished it because I loved getting lost and found with Jeanne. Her story of angst and adventure offers an intimate exposure to Cuban culture and the lives of Cubans struggling with the fallout of the U.S. embargo. The book is fresh—political without being wonky.

Mavis Anderson
Senior Policy Analyst for Cuba
Latin America Working Group

The prose is crisp and bright, vividly alive and quietly contemplative by turns. Reading Lemkau's story of "accidental" transformation, I felt--not bombarded by ideas--but bathed in light, air, sun, warmth, color and more color, friendship, love and more love.

             Diane S. Bonds
             Rockefeller Institute

A most enjoyable and compelling read. . . . Escapist literature, yes, but who else works out their midlife malaise in a Cuban leprosy sanatorium among nuns? 

  Wayne S. Smith
  Former Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana
  Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy
  Author, The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic Account of the Castro Years