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My Mother in Havana

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A daughter's search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods & ghosts & saints of Cuba

Writing with a physicality of language that moves like the body in dance, Rebe Huntman, a poet, choreographer, and dancer, embarks on a pilgrimage into the mysteries of the gods and saints of Cuba and their larger spiritual view of the Mother. Huntman offers a window into the extraordinary world of Afro-Cuban gods and ghosts and the dances and rituals that call them forth. As she explores the memory of her own mother, interlacing it with her search for the sacred feminine, Huntman leads us into a world of séance and sacrifice, pilgrimage and sacred dance, which resurrect her mother and bring Huntman face to face with a larger version of herself.

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Praise for My Mother in Havana

"My Mother in Havana lifts the veil between the living and the dead and makes believers of us all...This is a stunning debut."  

~ Lee Martin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright Forever

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My Mother in Havana

Book Club Discussion & Reader's Guide

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Questions to mull over alone or with a group; suggestions for summoning the spirits; Cuban cocktail/mocktail recipes & more!

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Join me on the My Mother in Havana book launch tour 🧭

Check out my events page for all the stops; I can’t think of anything more celebratory than looking out into the audience and seeing your face!

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Select Reviews & Media

Kirkus Reviews

Poets & Writers: Interview, Ten Questions Series

CRAFT Literary: Review/Interview

Paste Magazine: The Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books & Memoirs of 2025

Los Angeles Times: How Cuban culture filled a void after 30 years of longing

New World Writing Quarterly: Deities, Dance & Devotion

Feminism & Religion: When I Say that I Miss My Mother (30 years after her death),

What Precisely Am I Missing?

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire

Writers Digest: Writing as Arquitecture: Notes on Building vs. Writing Your Memoir

vol. 1 Brooklyn: Rebe Huntman on Memory, Pilgrimages, and Creation

Artburst Miami: A Midwest Woman’s Quest For Her Mother’s Spirit In Havana

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Grief and a Cuban Beat

Women Writers, Women's Books: Writing the Woven Memoir

Book Q & A with Deborah Kalb

Hasty Book List Interview

Lit Hub: Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba

Bookish Beck: Most Anticipated Books of the First Half of 2025

Shelf Awareness: Reading with... Rebe Huntman

Third Coast Review

What is That Book About

Vol.1 Brooklyn

Delaware Gazette

Large Hearted Boy: My Mother in Havana Playlist

EXCERPTS

The Spirit Speaks: My Mother in Havana excerpt published in Braided Way

City of Gods: My Mother in Havana excerpt published in Parabola

 

PODCASTS & RADIO

Creative Genius

Rewrite the Mother Code

Soul of Travel

Home to Her: Seeking the Spiritual Mother with Rebe Huntman

Artists for Joy: Creating through Grief

Let's Talk Memoir: Losing Mothers & Finding Them Again Through Memoir

Psychology of Pilgrimage

Becoming Your Best Version

Wild Precious Life

The Curious Man

Off the Shelf with Delaware Library

VIDEO

Poets & Writers/Left Bank Books

Home to Her: Seeking the Spiritual Mother with Rebe Huntman

Creative Genius

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Images from Cuba (Scroll to See Our Lady of Charity, Ochún, & More 

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