Beantown Cubans Author:Johnny Diaz Carlos Martin is twenty-seven years old and ready for a change. Cuban=born and Miami-raised, the cute but slightly awkward high school teacher figures that Boston is about as far from the crazy South Beach social scene as he can get -- and a way to escape the bittersweet reminders of his recently departed mother. Life in "Beantown" is quite a ... more »culture shock -- until Carlos meets Tommy Perez, another Miami transplant who quickly shows him the ropes. Now, in the course of one wildly unpredictable year, Carlos is going to learn to embrace his newfound independence, as well as his individuality...« less
Exceptionally well written; the author has captured both the dialogue and the mind=set of the transplanted Cuban forced to accommodate to both South Miami and Boston. I would love to read more by this author.