The Lost Boys

The Lost BoysThis private story gives course to an epic tale: Operation Pedro Pan The Cuban Childrens Exodus. The universal theme of growing up unfolds in the backdrop of national chaos, family separation, and the brink of nuclear holocaust from the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early 1960s, after President John F. Kennedy's failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, a young boy and his friends grow up in the Miami area refugee camps, which housed children fleeing Fidel Castro's

This private story gives course to an epic tale: Operation Pedro Pan Ð The Cuban ChildrenÕs Exodus. The universal theme of growing up unfolds in the backdrop of national chaos, family separation, and the brink of nuclear holocaust from the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early 1960s, after President John F. Kennedy's failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, a young boy and his friends grow up in the Miami-area refugee camps, which housed children fleeing Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba in search of freedom in the United States. In this rite of passage into adulthood, they try to make sense of the complex and unsettling world around them. This memoir of the Cold War and an escape from Communism stands unique in the long historical pages of AmericaÕs huddled masses yearning to breathe free.