I Was A Teenage Cuban Arsonist

Chock full of anecdotes-some heartbreaking others laugh-out-loud funny-I Was A Teenage Cuban Arsonist is a powerful memoir of Ramiro Perezs adventures growing up in pre-revolutionary Cuba and later as an exile in Miami. As a youth Ramiro and his two older brothers get into trouble with bloodthirsty nuns discover girls and inadvertently burn down the family farm. Upon arriving in Miami he is recruited into a counterrevolutionary movement formed to oppose Castro. In a blink Ramiro goes from penniless immigrant to soldier of fortune. Likening this book to a highlight reel of his life Perezs life story promises intrigue adventure and the tongue-in-cheek humor he is known for.