A Cold July In Cuba (Recollections Of My Father, The Revolutionary)

You Can't Run From Your Past, And You Can't Hide From It.
Author Ray F. Ledon, M.D. didn’t ask to have a seat at the heart of the Cuban revolution—that seat just happened to be at his kitchen table. Ramon Calixto Fernandez-Ledon, Dr. Ledon’s father, a renowned anesthesiologist famous for having created Havana’s first department of anesthesia at the University of Havana at a time when anesthesia was relatively unknown, was more than just a doctor—he was also a renowned Cuban activist and infamous revolutionary, being one of the many thousands to join a political and militaristic offensive against Fulgencio Batista’s increasingly non-democratic and brutal reign.
Exploring themes of sacrifice, dedication, and a sense of belonging, Dr. Ledon presents in his book, A Cold July in Cuba, an image of a terror-stricken Cuba through the eyes of a young boy—his own—whose father is wanted for dead by the very country they both love, and the journey that follows after his father is abducted by a pair of Batista’s men outside of the hospital where he worked in a middle-class Havana suburb of El Vedado.
While personal in nature, A Cold July in Cuba displays familiar images of family, persistence, and humanity that any reader can relate to.