Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-276) and index

1. Patria O Muerte: An Introduction -- 2. La Cola Cubana: Waiting As a Way of Life -- 3. Turismo O Muerte -- 4. Cuba's Stable Instability -- 5. Viva Buena Vista -- 6. Jineterismo: A Dollar Commodity -- 7. Season of the Night -- 8. The Cuban Survival Kit -- 9. The Cuban Diet: Hotels Over Rice and a Pinch of Control -- 10. La Bolsa Negra: Stepping Into Cuba's Black Market -- 11. Paradise Crumbling -- 12. The Revolution Is the Culture -- 13. The Search for Cubanidad -- 14. Still Isolated Behind the Palm Curtain -- 15. Marches for Justice -- 16. A Day At School -- 17. Christmas with the Castros -- 18. Reflections of the Parallel Culture -- 19. Cuba on the Fringe: A Revolution of Ink -- 20. Cuba, Drugs, and the Curse of Tio Sam -- 21. Sea Lane to Paradise -- 22. A Legal Escape -- 23. Epilogue: A Post-Castro Cuba?

"Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal stories that depict a people torn between following the directives of their government and finding a way to better their lot, journalist Ben Corbett gives us the daily life of many considered outlaws by Castro's regime. But are they outlaws or rather ingenious survivors of what many Cubans consider to be a forty-year mistake, a tangle of contradictions that has resulted in a strange hybrid of American-style capitalism and a homegrown black market economy."--BOOK JACKET

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