
My Mother in Havana


A daughter's search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods & ghosts & saints of Cuba
Writing with a physicality of language that moves like the body in dance, Rebe Huntman, a poet, choreographer, and dancer, embarks on a pilgrimage into the mysteries of the gods and saints of Cuba and their larger spiritual view of the Mother. Huntman offers a window into the extraordinary world of Afro-Cuban gods and ghosts and the dances and rituals that call them forth. As she explores the memory of her own mother, interlacing it with her search for the sacred feminine, Huntman leads us into a world of séance and sacrifice, pilgrimage and sacred dance, which resurrect her mother and bring Huntman face to face with a larger version of herself.
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Los Angeles Times: How Cuban culture filled a void after 30 years of longing
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Feminism & Religion: When I Say that I Miss My Mother (30 years after her death),
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire
Writers Digest: Writing as Arquitecture: Notes on Building vs. Writing Your Memoir
Women Writers, Women's Books: Writing the Woven Memoir
Lit Hub: Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba
Bookish Beck: Most Anticipated Books of the First Half of 2025
New World Writing Quarterly: Deities, Dance & Devotion
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The Spirit Speaks: My Mother in Havana excerpt published in Braided Way
City of Gods: My Mother in Havana excerpt published in Parabola
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