![]() ![]() “No one thought that there was going to be a permanent change,” Obejas said. Her family assumed they would go back to their home country because, she said, because Cuba went through coup d’états every so often, and everything would eventually return to normal. She was six years old when her family fled Cuba, following the Cuban Revolution. ![]() “If it hadn't been for forces outside of our family, my family would have remained in Cuba,” Obejas said. Obejas told KGOU’s World Views that Cuba is the subject of her work because she often focuses on rupture. She has also written collections of stories and poems. ![]() Obejas is a writer, translator and journalist whose novels include Memory Mambo, Days of Awe and Ruins. Even though Achy Obejas’s family left Cuba when she was very young, the island nation has an enormous influence on her work. ![]()
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