The CCCNY ends its Spring season with the New York City launching of
Isabel Parera‘s heartrending account of her mother’s time as a political prisoner in Cuba during the early years of the Revolution, when many became disillusioned with the new order.
Based on a manuscript left by her mother, Alicia Rodríguez, the author channels her voice in a candid first-person testimonial of her experience since the day of her arrest in Santiago in the summer of 1962. Fraught with unforeseen violence and repression, the penal system is unveiled in an unsparing account of the suffering it brought upon those who resisted, and the life-changing consequences it bore upon their loved ones.
The author will be interviewed by
Mayra McCarthy, from our History Program, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
BARUCH COLLEGE
25th Street, bet. Lexington and Third Aves., NYC
6th FLOOR: CONFERENCE ROOM 6-210
SPACE IS LIMITED
Free Admission
RSVP at: info@cubanculturalcenter.org
Isabel Parera Rodríguez was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1952. She left the Island in 1970 and since 1986 resides in Puerto Rico. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters from the Centro de 
Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, and presently teaches at the University of Puerto Rico. Her poetry has been included in several anthologies, among them, Poesía cubana contemporánea (1986) and Diccionario biográfico de poetas cubanos en el exilio, published by the U.N. Institute of International Education in 1998. She is the author of the poetry books Palabras de mujer (2000) and Espacio compartido (2012). Besides her trajectory as a poet and an educator, Ms. Perera has a long-standing commitment to the struggle for human rights and world peace.