Flight to Freedom Author:Ana Veciana-Suarez First Person Fiction — When Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba in 1967, Yara Garcia and her family are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. — Author Ana Veciana-Suarez was born in Havana in 1956, and she immigrated to Florida at the age of six. She drew on her own experi... more »ences to write this moving story of Yara's exile and adjustment to life in a less traditional country.« less