“I liked this book. It was an interesting story of a writer, of a cubano, of a young man growing up in the fifties and sixties. His picture of his life was one that revealed a world to me that I would otherwise not know a lot about (if anything). To me it is mainly the story about his writing life - though the first half of the book touches mainly on growing up in his family, in New York, in that period - when it comes to his interior life, I felt at the end, like he had left more out - than he had left in. I don’t mean that he needed to reveal more details of his life, it just felt more like he had told all these stories, without reflecting very deeply on them. I felt like it was not as well crafted as an entire book as the promise it seemed to hold. He writes honestly about his tax problems and his feelings of inadequacies - these seem both human and honest to me. I’m glad I read it. ”
