Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Prologue: Some Reflections before I Begin 1
5. 1. Scarsdale to Havana 7
6. 2. Transition 25
7. 3. Settling In 41
8. 4. Food, Food, Food 61
9. 5. Ten Million Tons of Sugar and Eleven Fishermen 71
10. 8. A Poetry Contest and a Beauty Pageant 83
11. 7. Women and Difference 95
12. 8. Information and Consciousness 115
13. 9. Changing Hearts, Minds, and Law 125
14. 10. “Poetry, Like Bread, Is for Everyone” 145
15. 11. El Quinquenio Gris 171
16. 12. The Sandinistas 191
17. 13. A Question of Power 217
18. 14. Epilogue 237
19. Notes 257
20. Index 263