Craving Cuba, alumna Zuzelin Martin Lynch’s nuanced documentary

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courtesy Zuzelin Martin Lynch

The experiences of three generations of Cuban Americans and their complicated attitudes and emotions toward Fidel Castro’s Cuba lie at the heart of Craving Cuba, alumna Zuzelin Martin Lynch’s nuanced documentary about the search for identity and roots. For her grandparents and middle-class people like them, Cuba meant having to abandon a contented life and flee to America. For her parents growing up in southern Florida, Cuba was a place vaguely imagined—and shunned. And for Martin Lynch RC’98, raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, new diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba have been an opportunity for her generation to return to the island nation and to experience a resounding sense of belonging. Craving Cuba is available for streaming at Amazon.com and Google Play.