Cuba: An American History

I'm Maria Hinojosa.

Today, a conversation with Ada Ferrer, renowned historian and the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book, Cuba: An American History.

In that book, she explored the history of Cuba and the United States, and the ways in which the two countries' histories are inseparable.

Now, Ada Ferrer has turned inward.

In her new book, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer traces her own family's migration, the story that brought her to the United States and left her brother Poli behind in Cuba.

Ada, it is so good to have you in the chair.

[laughs]

Well, it's great to be here.