The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Named one of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Novels and Best Beach Reads by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Travel + Leisure ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ Bustle ∙ SheReads ∙ Brit + Co and more!"An exciting and inspiring read that shows us how womanhood, courage and revolution are three words that often mean the same thing."―NPR
At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history.
A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper in 1896, she's caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it's a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life.
Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women's jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learns of her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba," she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence.
With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst's staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war, the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom.
Chanel Cleeton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Last Train to Key West, When We Left Cuba, and Next Year in Havana, which was chosen by Reese Witherspoon for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club. She was born in Florida and grew up hearing stories about her family's departure from Cuba following the Cuban Revolution. During her time in England, she received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Richmond, the American International University in London, and a master's degree in global politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Chanel graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law with a Juris Doctorate. She has lived in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia and enjoys traveling.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593197813 |
| ISBN 10 | 059319781X |
| Title | The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba |
| Author | Chanel Cleeton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2021-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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