Upcoming Books:
March 19
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire

April 16 
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown & Daniel J Brown

May 21
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande


June
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

"But even before Elián, he said, whenever he stumbled upon anything Cuban -- a restaurant, a song -- he felt ''a level of emotion that was unlike anything else.'' It all erupted like a volcano, he said, when he sat down to write ''Waiting for Snow in Havana.''Recapturing a Childhood In a Prerevolutionary Eden by Mireya Navarro, November 23, 2010 The New York Times  Book Review

Author Bio:

Cuban born author, Carlos Eire was born in Havana on November 23, 1950. He left Havana in1962 at the age of 11 as one of largest exodus of children from Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan.  Parents fearing for their children’s safety against Fidel Castro’s regime sent them to the U.S.  He lived in foster homes until he reunited in 1965 with his mother in Chicago. He completed his PhD at Yale University in 1979 and is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale.  Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003) won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is married and has three children. They reside in Guilford, Connecticut. 

Author Quotes: “"The book allowed me to let go of my past. It allowed me not to fix my gaze on what I had lost but rather to be happy that I had lost," he says.”  -Carlos Eire  Interview by Terry Gross, NPR, November 22, 2010
Read BExtraordinaire Blog for more reviews on our next book club selection. 
is reading "Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy"  written by Carlos Eire on March 19. 

Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos is a poignant and funny story of growing up in Cuba during the 1950s won the National Book Award for NonFiction in 2003. 


Meet the Author: Carlos Eire at Darien Library