Ana Veciana-Suarez

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Ana Veciana-Suarez is a Cuban-born author and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction explore migration, family, memory, culture, and belonging. A longtime Miami newspaper writer, she is the author of Flight to Freedom and Dulcinea, among other books.

Photo: Ana Veciana-Suarez via official author site · Source: Bio — Ana Veciana-Suarez ↗

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Years covered2002

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Flight to Freedom

2002 · Historical Fiction

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5 editions: Print · 2002 | Print · 2003 | Print · 2004 | Print · 2016

About this work & edition details

First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.

Print · Scholastic Inc. · 2002 · English
ISBN 9780439381994

Print · Scholastic · 2003 · English
ISBN 9780439531139

Print · Scholastic · 2004 · English
ISBN 9780439382007

Print · Scholastic · 2004 · English
ISBN 9780439661324

Print · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2016-12-14 · English
ISBN 9781537437835

More About Ana Veciana-Suarez

Ana Veciana-Suarez was born in Cuba and immigrated to Miami at age six. She built a career as a reporter, editor, and columnist at South Florida newspapers, including The Miami Herald, The Miami News, and The Palm Beach Post.

Her writing spans novels, memoir, children's literature, and nonfiction about Hispanic media. Flight to Freedom centers a Cuban immigrant girl's first year in Miami and received a 2002 commendation from the Américas Award.

In interviews about Dulcinea, Veciana-Suarez describes combining research, imagination, and personal grief to give Cervantes's character a life and voice beyond Don Quixote.

Genres

Historical Fiction

Links

Official website ↗Official press page ↗Official contact page ↗

Sources

  1. Ana Veciana-Suarez — official website ↗
  2. Press — Ana Veciana-Suarez ↗
  3. Ana Veciana-Suarez | Between the Covers Summer Series ↗
  4. Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-Imagining Cervantes ↗
  5. Friend of the Month: Ana Veciana-Suarez ↗
  6. Flight to Freedom — Stone Soup ↗
  7. Américas Award Books About Cuba ↗
  8. Contact — Ana Veciana-Suarez ↗
  9. Bio — Ana Veciana-Suarez ↗
  10. Ana Veciana-Suarez — selected portrait asset ↗