Miami

“Havana vanities come to dust in Miami,” writes Joan Didion at the start of Miami, a book that looks beyond the city’s bright pastel facades and sunlit beaches to shadowed scenes, dark history. Didion trains her penetrating vision on Miami’s Cuban exile community during the 1980s, dissecting their hopes and fierce politics, their undying commitment to Castro’s overthrow, and their tangled dynamic with successive American administrations since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion …