# Event Details

- **Event Name**: My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle with Rebe Huntman
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: A daughter’s search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods, ghosts, and saints of Cuba. 

“My Mother in Havana lifts the veil between the living and the dead and makes believers of us all. This story of a mother's absence and a daughter's need is written with a lyricism that filled my heart with beauty while also making it ache for loved ones lost. This is a stunning debut.” —Lee Martin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright Forever

“I closed this book believing more than ever that the people we love, including the people we’ve been, never really leave us.” —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Writing with a physicality of language that moves like the body in dance, Rebe Huntman, a poet, choreographer, and dancer, embarks on a pilgrimage into the mysteries of the gods and saints of Cuba and their larger spiritual view of the Mother. Huntman offers a window into the extraordinary world of Afro-Cuban gods and ghosts and the dances and rituals that call them forth. As she explores the memory of her own mother, interlacing it with her search for the sacred feminine, Huntman leads us into a world of séance and sacrifice, pilgrimage and sacred dance, which resurrect her mother and bring Huntman face to face with a larger version of herself.

Author Bio: Rebe Huntman is author of the forthcoming book, My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, February 18, 2025). She is a memoirist, essayist, dancer, teacher, and poet who writes at the intersections of feminism, world religion and spirituality. For over a decade she directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its dance company, One World Dance Theater. Huntman collaborates with native artists in Cuba and South America, has been featured in Latina Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and has appeared on Fox and ABC News. A Macondo fellow and recipient of an Ohio Individual Excellence award, Huntman has received support for this book from The Ohio State University, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, PLAYA Residency, Hambidge Center, and Brush Creek Foundation. She lives in Delaware, Ohio and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wheeling/my-mother-in-havana-a-memoir-of-magic-and-miracle-with-rebe-huntman/200027617407410
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, dance, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 36

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Wheeling
- **state**: WV
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library
- **lat**: 40.063815838283
- **long**: -80.720057623965
- **full address**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52-16th Street,Wheeling, West Virginia, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle with Rebe Huntman being held?
  - **A:** My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle with Rebe Huntman takes place on Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 12:00 pm at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52-16th Street,Wheeling, West Virginia, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle with Rebe Huntman?
  - **A:** My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle with Rebe Huntman is organized by Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library.

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