When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer’s mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision’s reverberations across generations of her family.
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At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Adela Ferrer made an impossible decision. Her husband had fled Havana for New York, and she planned to take her two children and join him. But her first husband, still in Cuba, forbade her from taking their 9-year-old son. So she made
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