"Ada Ferrers Keeper of My Kin is a brilliant testament to the power of storytelling. A devastatingly human portrayal of the effects of migration, family secrets, and the history that binds and moves us, this book is a must-read for anyone who has ever loved. With enormous tenderness and an unflinching pursuit of truth, Ferrer writes her family into history, into memoir, into public record, into sunlight, where theywhere we allhave always deserved to be." Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito "Powerful and eloquent, Keeper of My Kin explores love of family and love of placeand, for those who are forced to flee, what is left behind and what stays with them forever." Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle [ Ferrer] braids a clear-eyed account of recent Cuban history with an empathetic catalog of its effects on her family. Its a memorable and heartrending achievement. Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A poignant tribute to the bonds of familial love across history, geography, and political and personal challenges." Shelf Awareness "A gripping family memoir, Keeper of My Kin explores fraught relationships and secret pasts against the backdrop of big history. Here, Ada Ferrer, the 'historian daughter' and descendant of an enslaved Black maternal ancestor, tells the truths of her kin with an aching tenderness, revealing the traumas that come with the package of racism, war, revolution, and migration. In an intimate story lovingly told, memory, history, and emotional honesty combine in a beautiful act of retrieval." Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashleys Sack, a Black Family Keepsake "Ada Ferrer's remarkable Keeper of My Kin is one of those memoirs you don't just read, but one that you feel in your bones. It's both a fearless excavation of the past and a bold, compassionate attempt to understand the difficult choices embedded, sometimes buried, within every immigration story. I loved this book." Daniel Alarcón, executive producer of Radio Ambulante and author of The King Is Always Above His People Love is everywhere in this book: the deep romantic bond between her parents, the authors intense attachment to both of them and to other relatives, and to the troubled island country she lived in for only ten months, yet became the center of her scholarship, her thinking, and her identity. As heartbreaking as this story often is, it is equally heartwarming, filled with love of all kinds. Kirkus (starred review) "Keeper of My Kin is an engrossing tale of what it takes to make and keep a family across generations, even in the face of political turmoil and impossible choices. Ada Ferrer is a deeply moving truth-teller who, in recovering the lives of her kin, rediscovers herself. On her bold and beautiful pages, we learn that migration has never been a story of politics and power alone. At its core, it is a saga about family love. A new window onto our own moment, this book is a gift to a nation striving to better understand the stakes of every stop, detention, and expulsion carried out today. It is a balm and brave call to conscience." Martha S. Jones, author of The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir The Ferrer family will forever stay with you for theirs is the story of all Cubans in the last seven decades. If you read this tender and brilliant book as I diddrying tears and holding my breathitll be yours to cherish as well. A triumphant memoir of love and loss. Mirta Ojito, author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus and the USA Today bestselling novel Deeper than the Ocean "'What country, friends, is this?' asks Viola, washed ashore in Illyria at the beginning of Twelfth Night. Here, another island, Cuba, and the shores of America; another wine-dark, enclosed, estranging sea; other odysseys. Ferrer has written a history that is also myth: of those left behind, lost brothers, found families, old and new lives. Keeper of My Kin is exhilarating to read; I loved it; I loved knowing more about all the departures and returns, the losses and reparations, that have made the modern world." Carolyn Steedman, author of Landscape for a Good Woman
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