42959 Reinaldo Arenas http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B60MBZF7L._SX80_.jpg 9 This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York Times Best Book of 1993. 64