Cuba-Going Back was an account, (roughly 80 pictures and 80 pages of text) of a three week trip to Cuba.
It was my first trip back since 1960, when I left with my family at eighteen. For a very long time I've been wanting to go back to Cuba, where I was born. So on one level it's a personal journey to a place where once I was very happy. I've also been extremely curious about how Cubans on the island relate to their government, and how they manage their daily lives. Basically I went there on a fact finding mission. I made it a point to hear what they told me. I also found it very easy to talk to Cubans, to photograph and to move around the island. I spoke to around 200 people from all walks of life, and was quite amazed by what they told me. Life in Cuba is very difficult but somehow everyone manages. I think I make a good case for ending the embargo from the point of view of the self-employed workers, who will make socialism irrelevant if their numbers increase. I think it's also an amusing book; Cubans are short of everything, except humor. If you want to go to the Amazon.com site, which also has a large number of reviews of this book, click here. If you want to see some pictures from the book, click on them below. The text reads like a diary; what happened to me when I was there, what people told me. If you want to read from the first 20 pages, click here.