

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening with Ada Ferrer in conversation with Mirta Ojito
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with author Ada Ferrer for the release of her new book, KEEPER OF MY KIN. With introductions by Bob Martinez.About this Event🎟️ Please note: Tickets are REQUIRED. Each ticket admits two (2) guests into the venue and includes one (1) copy of Keeper Of My Kin ($30 + tax). Books will be handed out upon entry. Additional books will be available for sale at the event. Can't make the event? About The BookFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Ada Ferrer’s mother made the agonizing decision to flee Cuba with her infant daughter, Ada, and to leave behind her nine-year-old son, Poly. That moment was but a ripple in a much larger story of a world historical revolution. Yet, in another more intimate family history, that choice was a crossroads, ultimately inseparable from who and what they all became.In this beautiful memoir, Ferrer masterfully shifts between her roles as historian and family member, weaving a multigenerational tale that reaches into the past to understand the circumstances and choices that led to the present. We see key historical events through the eyes of the family: the grandmother who raised Poly after Ada’s departure, a Black woman born a year after the end of slavery in Cuba; Ada’s parents, forced to invent themselves anew in a foreign land; and two brothers left behind—Poly and another, once-secret brother named Juan José, both of whose lives were marked irrevocably by revolution and family separation. Moving between Cuba and the United States and then back again, the book unpacks the experience and emotion of migration, in the moment of separation and over the long-term, for those who left and those who stayed.Using a treasure trove of letters written across the gulf of family separation and found after the death of Ada’s parents, as well as government documents acquired through Freedom of Information Act requests, Ferrer offers us a profound reflection on belonging, memory, and the lasting imprint of history.About The AuthorAda Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. From 1995 to 2024, she taught at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of Cuba: An American History, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and a finalist for the Cundill History Prize. Her earlier books, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution won multiple prizes, among them the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University, three prizes from the American Historical Association, and the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history. Ferrer has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Social Science Research Council, among many others. Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Ferrer has been traveling to and conducting research on the island since 1990.About The ModeratorBorn in Havana, Mirta Ojito is a journalist, professor, and author who has worked at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the New York Times. The recipient of an Emmy for the documentary Harvest of Misery as well as a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America for the New York Times, Ojito was an assistant professor of journalism at Columbia University for almost nine years. She is the author of two award-winning nonfiction books: Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus and Hunting Season: Immigration and M**der in an All-American Town. Currently, Ojito is a senior director on the NBC News Standards team working at Telemundo Network. Deeper than the Ocean is her debut novel.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/b16cbc80-19e3-11f1-9e27-61f09d4cb8ea-rimg-w490-h740-dcddd6c0-gmir.jpg
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports
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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 34.76, max: 34.76, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Coral Gables
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Sanctuary of the Arts
- **lat**: 25.748081
- **long**: -80.263243
- **full address**: Sanctuary of the Arts, 410 Andalusia Avenue, Coral Gables, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sanctuary of the Arts, 410 Andalusia Avenue, Coral Gables, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 34.76 up to 34.76 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Books & Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Sports
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