Exiled Cuban voices spring to life in new spanglish monologues, Cuban, That's All! An Exile In Three Acts.

Cuban, That's All! - An Exile In Three Acts, Candid Voices of a Spanglish Existence will be presented live at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida on April 12, 2002 at 8:00 pm. A sixty minute performance will be followed by a question and answer session and a book signing by the author. Cuban author Juan Hernandez and a cast of three will interpret 20+ monologues from the dramedy recounting the Cuban exile experience from 1959 post-revolution Cuba through today. Books and Books is located at 265 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables.

Cuban, That's All! has been performed in various venues throughout South Florida and was most recently featured in 'The Internet Cuban' (icuban.com) in the month of December.

Cuban author Juan Hernandez has written a series of monologues capturing the many stories of Cuban exiles as they assimilated into the 'great American melting pot.'

The cast consists of Marta Davis, Gregg Davis, Yvonne Hernandez and Juan Hernandez interpreting monologues ranging from a mother trying to prepare her daughter's fifteen's party to a boy who was smuggled from Cuba in a shoebox.

For people who lived through the Cuban repatriation experience, either through the Freedom Flights, the Pedro Pan project, the Mariel Boatlift or Camarioca, this book/play will evoke emotions and memories.

For anyone interested in Cuba and the immigrant experience, this book provides some great insights into the many tales of assimilation by Cuban exiles.

Speaking specifically to anyone who has had to leave their homeland, the monologues range from serious to humorous; however, they all show the overwhelming tenacity that allowed the Cuban people to survive, endure and prosper in their new homeland.

From the back cover of Cuban, That's All! An Exile In Three Acts - Candid Voices of a Spanglish Existence

'Cuba in 1965 was no longer the paradise it had once been... There was, literally, nowhere else to go but out. ...so says The Shoebox Child, one of the many exiled voices in Cuban, Thats All!

Listen to the stories of assimilation as you travel from 1959 to the world of todays Cuban exiles.

Hear the voices of Camarioca, the Freedom Flights, Operacion Pedro Pan, the Mariel Boatlift and today with the pathos, humor and honesty that only Cubans can bring to their repatriation experience.

Laugh with Mayflower Mary as she tells you about her Cubano husband; cry with Luisito Dolor, a gay, Mariel boatlift refugee who spent time in a Cuban prison; meet all the voices as they embark with you on their journey toward their new homeland.

About the author: 37 year old Juan Hernandez left Cuba when he was 15 days old. Since then, he has never returned. Juan lives in South Florida with his wife Yvonne. He is currently working on his novel/screenplay Shoebox Child and on a companion piece to Cuban, That's All!.

Cuban, That's All! An Exile in Three Acts is available from Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. ISBN: 0595248454/$16.95