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Ruth Behar

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Ruth Behar is an award-winning Cuban American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include Lucky Broken Girl, Letters from Cuba, Across So Many Seas, Pepita Meets Bebita (co-authored with her son), and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, which follows on the work of her documentary film, Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love) about the Sephardi community of Cuba. Ruth was the first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and was named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation. She is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor. www.ruthbehar.com Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey, written by Ruth Behar and illustrated by Devon Holzwarth, New York: Knopf, 2022. The English and Spanish edition, El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna: Una historia judía-cubana (Traducido por Yanitzia Canetti), are available for order and as audiobooks at penguinrandomhouse.com.
Picture of Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar is an award-winning Cuban American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include Lucky Broken Girl, Letters from Cuba, Across So Many Seas, Pepita Meets Bebita (co-authored with her son), and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, which follows on the work of her documentary film, Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love) about the Sephardi community of Cuba. Ruth was the first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and was named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation. She is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor. www.ruthbehar.com Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey, written by Ruth Behar and illustrated by Devon Holzwarth, New York: Knopf, 2022. The English and Spanish edition, El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna: Una historia judía-cubana (Traducido por Yanitzia Canetti), are available for order and as audiobooks at penguinrandomhouse.com.