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How place and sensory memory shaped A Little Piece of Cuba

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Today on More to the Story Podcast: A Client Interview with Barbara Caver, author of the debut memoir A Little Piece of CubaBarbara Caver joins me to talk about her debut memoir A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana Americana, which lands December 2 (She Writes Press / distributed by Simon & Schuster). We talk about the long, winding path from screenwriting and documentary work to creative nonfiction, how a five-day trip to Havana reopened childhood memory, and the way family recipes and sensory details can act as time machines for a life lived between places. About BarbaraBarbara Caver is a lifelong student of the arts and is an accomplished film and television production executive. She loves traveling, exercising, hiking, dancing, cooking, and eating, as well as writing about all of these things with great enthusiasm, affection, and humor. A Little Piece of Cuba is her first full-length memoir. Raised in South Carolina, Barbara currently resides in Jackson Heights, New York City.In today’s