The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga, Professor Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence: a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship, families divided by political loyalties, an orphaned boy from central Cuba who would go on to amass a fortune, a fatal love triangle; political violence; and the ever-growing presence of the United States. It all culminates with an unforgettable portrait of a childhood spent in a world that was giving way to another one. The House on G Street follows a family whose lives mirror the history of a nation.
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Lisandro Pérez is a professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College. For 25years, he was on the faculty at Florida International University in Miami, where he founded and directed its Cuban Research Institute.
Pérez has served as editor of the journal Cuban Studies and co-authored The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States (Allyn & Bacon, 2003). His 2018 book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press), won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History, awarded by the New York Academy of History. Pérez was also awarded the 2023 Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Contributions to Cuban Studies by the Latin American Studies Association.
