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"I felt guilty for being the chosen one": Ada Ferrer on her memoir about leaving Cuba

NPR | By Daniel Ofman,
Adrian Florido, Sarah Robbins
Published May 30, 2026 at 2:08 PM PDT

When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer's mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision's reverberations across generations of her family.

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Daniel Ofman
Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a national correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America.
Sarah Robbins