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title: "Take Me with You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba"
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# Take Me with You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Amazing memoir of a voyage to discover ancestral homeland roots ...
  

*by A***Z on Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2018*

Amazing memoir of a voyage to discover ancestral homeland roots for the son of a Cuban exile family.  It captured the complexities of my psyche as if I were in the author's conundrums on his journey.  Being that I too am a 1st generation American, son of Cuban exiles in this country I could totally relate and feel raw and powerful emotions reading this story.  The book of his journey through some of modern Cuba is at times heartbreaking, funny, compelling and poignant.  Overall though it was a joy to read when it was released and I just read it again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very good book.
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2013*

I thought this was a very good book if you want to know about the lives of everyday Cubans in the Havana area of Cuba.  Politics aside, I read this type of book for what I can learn about the real Cuba and the lives of average Cubans.  What Cuba needed in the 50's when the Batista ruled was real democratic reform.  What they got instead was Fidel Castro....without question a much worse fate.  Cubans have had to live with the daily lies and broken promises for more than 50 years of the Castro regime.  Predictably, over the years, many Cubans have gone over to the "revolution side" in order to somewhat better their own lives as they sell out their neighbors' rights and personal freedoms.But gladly, this is not a book about politics, or about whether the Castro brothers regime is bad as they appear to be or if the US is the "big bad wolf" that they would have everyone in Cuba believe.Instead, the book is about an author's awakening into another world that his family's past and present.  Most Americans who have not traveled much outside the US have only a fuzzy picture of what other countries are really like on an everyday basis, particularly a third-world country like Cuba. This book is a revelation into the lives of one particular extended family, who for the most part are not part of the party privileged in modern day Cuba.  Although a heart-warming account of one man's rebirth or reconnection to his roots in another country, if not another world, to me the insights and short accounts of everyday life and glimpses of Cuban life provide the most interesting part of the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Take Me With You
  

*by K***K on Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2011*

This is a well-written and very moving book. The newly-developing connections between family members across a 90 mile body of water give poignant life to "Take Me With You."The secondary story, and to my mind, the most important part, is that the book lets a breathe of fresh air into America's view of a sealed country. I was particularly struck by the two-faced nature of Castro's Cuba. The Cuba seen by tourists is a stage set.The houses on  Elian Gonzale's street are painted and repaired so news casts shown in the rest of the world will present a nice image of Cuba. The infrastructure and houses in the neighborhoods of the ordinary folks are crumbling and decaying. The facade continues with churches, hotels and restaurants that only tourists are allowed to visit.The deprivations in terms of meat, medical supplies and adequate modern sewer systems is inexcusable, and Frias's expressed need of protecting his Cuban cousins by using fictive names is tragic. The neighborhood watch that squeals on its neighbors and the author's fear that his journals will be found in his suitcase are chilling.This book by a Cuban-American will make the reader more appreciative of life in the United States  and of the resilience of every day Cubans who must "go along to get along."This book is an excellent companion piece to "This is Cuba" by Ben Corbett. Both books will leave you amazed and angry.Kim BurdickStanton, Delaware

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