A Prelude of Sorts xiii
PART ONE The Way Same Things Worked Out
Chapter 1 When I Was Still Cuban
3(50)
Chapter 2 A Few Notes on My Past
53(46)
Chapter 3 Some Moments of Freedom
99(28)
Chapter 4 Childhood Ends
127(50)
PART TWO What Happened Afterward
Chapter 5 Getting By
177(16)
Chapter 6 My Two Selves
193(42)
Chapter 7 My Life on Madison Avenue
235(32)
Chapter 8 Our House in the Last World
267(22)
Chapter 9 Roma
289(34)
Chapter 10 Another Book
323(46)
Acknowledgments 369