Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps In Cuba - Paperback

by Betty Viamontes (Author)

What if the price of freedom was everything you loved?

In 1960s Cuba, a young woman's life changes forever when she is ordered to report to a labor camp-punished simply because her family dared to dream of leaving the country. Torn from her home, her family, and the man she loves, she is thrust into a world of forced labor, fear, and relentless control.

As she struggles to survive the brutal realities of camp life, she must find strength in the memories she carries and the hope that one day she will be free.

Under the Palm Trees is a gripping true story of courage, endurance, and the unbreakable bonds of family and love in the face of oppression.

From the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street" comes a story based on true events. In the 1960s, central Cuba, a young middle-class woman's life is interrupted as she finds herself a victim in what will quickly become a hurricane of world politics and idealistic dogma. "Betty Viamontes's books are not intended to be classic literature. Instead, they are deliberately simple, about real people caught in an historical cataclysm. Like most Holocaust memoirs, its strength lies in its simplicity. Ms. Viamontes tells a simple story of normal people, allowing the reader's imagination to fill in the details.. The result stays with you, long after the final virtual page is turned." Dr. Allen Witt.