BRIDGES - TO/FROM - CUBA

Lifting the Emotional Embargo

Carlos Rafael Gomez

Last Rites

Last Rites

Going to Cuba to pay a visit to the dead who rest in cemeteries on the island has become a common ritual among Cuban Americans. In the essay “Last Rites,” Carlos Rafael Gomez movingly recalls finding his great-grandmother’s tombstone at the Colón Cemetery with the...

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Extremaunción

Extremaunción

Ir a Cuba para visitar a los muertos que descansan en los cementerios de la Isla se ha convertido en un ritual común entre los cubanoamericanos. En el ensayo "Extremaunción”, Carlos Rafael Gómez recuerda con emoción la búsqueda de la lápida de su bisabuela en el...

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