Escaping Your Own Voice: An interview with Daniel Borzutzky

In 1939, as the victory of a military coups led by the fascist general Francisco Franco drew near, my grandfather and his family fled their war-torn home, a small town outside of Seville. They landed in Havana, Cuba, their new safe haven. They could not have know that it, too, was on the brink of occupation by an authoritarian general.