Calle Santa Irene is a single street in Havana - six households bound by proximity, rivalry, and the particular intimacy of people who've watched each other's children grow up. Through 1957, 1958, and the first turbulent months of 1959, the street's families navigate arrests, informants, disappearances, and a revolution that arrives with music and flags before anyone understands what it will actually cost.
There's the storekeeper's family at its center, a journalist whose defiance draws dangerous attention, a senator who believes proximity to power will protect him, and a woman whose small betrayals prove far more consequential than anyone on the street initially believes. As Batista falls and Castro rises, the street's residents each decide, in their own way, what they're willing to risk, defend, or finally admit they got wrong.
A prequel to A Childhood in Ninety Miles, and a street-level portrait of a country changing hands.
Calle Santa Irene is a single street in Havana - six households bound by proximity, rivalry, and the particular intimacy of people who've watched each other's children grow up. Through 1957, 1958, and the first turbulent months of 1959, the street's families navigate arrests, informants, disappearances, and a revolution that arrives with music and flags before anyone understands what it will actually cost.
There's the storekeeper's family at its center, a journalist whose defiance draws dangerous attention, a senator who believes proximity to power will protect him, and a woman whose small betrayals prove far more consequential than anyone on the street initially believes. As Batista falls and Castro rises, the street's residents each decide, in their own way, what they're willing to risk, defend, or finally admit they got wrong.
A prequel to A Childhood in Ninety Miles, and a street-level portrait of a country changing hands.
