Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba
By (Author) Elena Schwolsky
She Writes Press
She Writes Press
26th December 2019
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
American interest in and travel to Cuba is at an all-time high: an estimated 140,000 Americans traveled legally to Cuba in 2018 and an additional 50,000 found a way to sneak in.
Increased interest in all things Cuban is reflected on the big and small screen in the US through movies like Oscar-winning Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry & Chocolate), and The Motorcycle Diaries, TV shows like Anthony Bourdains No Reservations and Netflixs Four Seasons in Havana, and documentaries like Azucar! The Life of Celia Cruz and The Cuba Libre Story.
36.9 million people were living with HIV around the world in 2017, and an estimated 940,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2017.
Thousands of Americans still die every year from HIV/AIDS; in 2014, 12,333 Americans with HIV died of any cause and 6,721 died from causes directly attributable to HIV.
Reviews
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Travel/Travel Guide 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Memoirs (Personal Issues/Health Struggles) 2020 Eric Hoffer Awards Montaigne Medal Finalist 2020 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Memoir 2019 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Adult Nonfiction: Grief/Grieving
Author Bio
Elena Schwolsky, RN, MPH is a nurse, community health educator, activist, and writer who spent a decade as a pediatric nurse at the height of the AIDS epidemic. She has trained AIDS educators in Cuba and Tanzania, and currently teaches community health workers in diverse urban neighborhoods in New York City. Her essays have appeared in The American Journal of Nursing and The Veteran, and her work has been included in the anthologies Storied Dishes: What Our Family Recipes Tell Us About Who We Are and Where Weve Been and Reflections on Nursing: 80 inspiring stories on the art and science of nursing. A chapter she cowrote appears in the textbook Children, Families and AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues. Schwolsky is the recipient of an award from the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund and is proud to be recognized as the madrina (godmother) of Proyecto Memorias, the Cuban AIDS Quilt project.
