Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

Reinaldo Arenas

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional sad slow-paced

336 pages | first published 1992

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The shocking personal and political memoir of one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba. This explosive story names names and breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosex...
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