Violet Paz is a Cuban-American girl (and half Polish too), living in Chicago. Her fifteenth birthday is coming up soon and her Abuela (grandmother) is making Victoria enthusiastic to celebrate this the traditional Cuban way: with a Quinceañero party, because fifteen is the age when a girl reaches womanhood officially. Violet knows little about her Cuban heritage, because her parents never talk about it, because they feel truly American.But while organising the Quince, Violet learns more about the Cuban culture, the embargo and Fidel Castro. But when she learns more and even attends a Cuban peace rally, she gets on her fathers bad side.Besides the Quinceañera, Violet is in a speech competition at school wich gives her a lot of stress in combination with the party planning..
The story of Cuba 15 wasn't as exciting and fun as I hoped for. The style of writing was really slow paced and the main character got stuck too long in certain situations and doesn't have a very big development to keep the story rolling on. (you can easily skip a few pages here and there).But besides that fun to read if you love books between cultures.
