“Hotel Cuba” By Author & Professor Aaron Hamburger

Aaron Hamburger will speak in the Johann Fust Community Library’s loggia and courtyard on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 4 p.m. His novel Hotel Cuba is a heartbreaking, epic family story. It explores the profound courage of two women who strive to create a new future in an enticing and dangerous world far different from anything they have ever known. Hoping to come to the United States in the 1920s, they end up in Cuba because of immigration restrictions. Aaron paints a vivid picture of Cuba filled with the wild and colorful sights and sounds of prohibition-era Havana. 

Aaron is the author of four books: the story collection The View from Stalin’s Head, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature, and the novels Faith for Beginners (a Lambda Literary Award nominee) and Nirvana Is Here (winner of a Bronze Medal in the 2019 Foreword Indie Awards),

His writing has appeared in such venues as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Tin House, Crazyhorse, Boulevard, Poets & Writers, and O, the Oprah Magazine. He teaches writing at George Washington University and the Stonecoast MFA Program.

Aaron has also won the Jim Duggins Ph.D. Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from Lambda Literary and fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

This event is free to attend, but registration is required. To register for this event, visit JFLFBG.org or call the foundation office at (941) 964-0211.