<DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">“Marc Frank is the best foreign journalist reporting from Cuba today. We now have a behind-the-scenes look at the changes large and small taking place as the Cuban revolution molts from Fidel to Raúl to the next generation.”—Julia Sweig, author of <i>Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">“A must-read book to grasp what has been happening in Cuba over the past ten years.”—Wayne Smith, director of the Cuba Project, Center for International Policy</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">“Frank enriches his fascinating reportage with his unparalleled access to expressive Cubans from all walks of life.”—Richard Feinberg, University of California, San Diego</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">“With a sharp eye for human detail and a clear understanding of what makes Cuba tick, Frank’s narrative bears eloquent, balanced, and always sensitive witness to the troubled trajectory of Cuba from the ‘dark days’ of the 1990s economic collapse through to the challenging changes under Raúl. It genuinely gets ‘inside’ the otherwise confusing system and society, and is all the more welcome for that.”?Antoni Kapcia, coeditor of <i>The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">“Gripping and insightful. It is rare indeed to find reporting as authoritative and well sourced as this about what remains an impenetrable and opaque regime.”—Michael Reid, author of <i>Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul<BR><BR><BR></i></p><DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto">As a U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Mark Frank has observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. In <i>Cuban Revelations</i>, Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: auto"><BR>Examining the effects of U.S. policy toward Cuba, Frank analyzes why Cuba has entered an extraordinary, irreversible period of change and considers what the island’s future holds. The enormous soc