The New York Times bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The
Flamethrowers A New York Times bestseller Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Fidel
and Ral Castro are in the hills descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit
rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio entangled with a French agitator trying to
escape his shameful past. Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US
colony about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.