MiamiMiami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile

and 180 beautiful photographs

Speaking across generations to both the passions of youth and the agonies of adulthood

and being non-binary

I see my own body

and vice versa

passing on the way through a New York reminiscent of prerevolutionary St

they try living as digital nomads only to discover that

a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality

public demonstrations and community outreach initiatives

again dropping wisdom about alternative ways to live at this deeply fucked-up moment

and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan

a novel that moves even further into dark territory