Girl Named Polina

From the author of the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street comes a powerful, multigenerational novel of secrets, separation, and survival in revolutionary Cuba.Havana, 1980.Polina has grown up surrounded by love, her world carefully shaped by the people who raised her. In a country where silence is survival, she has learned not to question what lies beyond it.But everything changes the day her family makes a desperate decision—to seek refuge inside the Peruvian Embassy.In a matter of hours, the life she has always known begins to unravel. The truths she trusted feel uncertain, and the future stretches into the unknown.As Polina is pulled from her home and into a new world, she must face a question she has never dared to ask:How much of what we believe is really true?Because some secrets do not stay buried.And some truths wait years to be revealed.