Dark humor pervades many a situation in this multi character driven story. Where each character offers their version of what happened. Perhaps that’s because the Cuban reality is one where truth has for so long been the monopoly of the regime and everyone has to parcel out their stake in that truth to come up and make sense of their reality. The characters were believable and authentic. The story is a modern Cuban tale with provocative twists. These twists allows the author to recreate situations which might seem far fetched but lived and inhabited by the characters succeeds in transmitting the familiar desperation and grit seen in many an islander.