The Cubans

<b>"[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see . . . You won''t forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma''s bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island . . . A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor."--<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families''s varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.<br><br>Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long. <br><br>In Guanabac