{"product_id":"9781580055321","title":"The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba","description":"Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEye-opening and politically prescient, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133061415152,"sku":"9781580055321","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781580055321_p0.jpg?v=1763791754","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781580055321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}