A vivid account of Richard Blanco's coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his effort to contend with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.

In The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Richard Blanco tells the story of his upbringing in Miami, Florida, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Blanco's family, who had moved to Miami from Cuba as political refugees, struggled to assimilate into a new culture while maintaining their Cuban heritage.

In this memoir, Blanco recounts his experiences as a child growing up across cultures and navigates the tension between his family's traditions and the expectations of American society.

This book evokes the complexities, glories, and humor of navigating two imaginary worlds: the Cuba of the 1950s that his family longed for and his own idealized America.