To Change the World: My Years in Cuba

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In To Change the World, the legendary creator and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution’s great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island all the way through a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time.

Randall gives readers an inside have a look at her children’s education, the process through which new law was once enacted, the bits and bobs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and extraordinary people’s lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cuban writers and artists faced them. She recounts one of the most country’s last beauty pageants, shows us a night of People’s Court, and takes us with her when she shops for her circle of relatives’s food rations. Key figures of the revolution appear all over, and Randall reveals aspects of their lives never before seen.

More than fifty black and white photographs, most by the creator, add depth and richness to this astute and illuminating memoir. Written with a poet’s ear, depicted with a photographer’s eye, and filled with a feminist vision, To Change the Worldùneither an apology nor gratuitous attackùadds immensely to the existing literature on revolutionary Cuba.

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