Carlos Eire, Yale historian, comes out with second memoir
Eire comes out with 2nd memoir London: He`s still waiting for snow, only now he`s doing so literally in Bloomington, Ill., not figuratively in Havana.
It`s 1963, Carlos Eire is 13 and when the snowflakes finally fall in his new corner of the world, he writes, they "snuck up on me, just like the Cuban Revolution. Except this is the best of all surprises, not the worst."...
Now 59, Eire is not dying, nor does he live in Miami. He is a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University. But he views boarding a KLM flight from Havana to Florida in 1962 as a death — the end of Carlos and his rebirth as Charles, a boy desperate to assimilate into American life.
A long-time author of academic works, Eire said he wrote his second memoir in just three months, same as his first....
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It`s 1963, Carlos Eire is 13 and when the snowflakes finally fall in his new corner of the world, he writes, they "snuck up on me, just like the Cuban Revolution. Except this is the best of all surprises, not the worst."...
Now 59, Eire is not dying, nor does he live in Miami. He is a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University. But he views boarding a KLM flight from Havana to Florida in 1962 as a death — the end of Carlos and his rebirth as Charles, a boy desperate to assimilate into American life.
A long-time author of academic works, Eire said he wrote his second memoir in just three months, same as his first....