Adrianna Cuevas Is Back with CUBA IN MY POCKET: The Interview

In 2020 I was not a great middle grade fiction reader. The pandemic was in full swing and I found that I had difficulty concentrating on a single book at a time. Many was the title I picked up and had to put down again. This is probably why I feel such affection towards THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF NESTOR LOPEZ. It had all the trappings of an “issues” book. Boy living with his grandmother. Dad off to war. The army brat problem of traveling from town to town, never getting to keep any friends. A growing ...