Telex from Cuba

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” ( The New Yorker ), “multilayered and absorbing” ( The New York Times Book Review ), and “gorgeously written” ( Kirkus Reviews ). Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom—three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics