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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Donna Edwards

Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new graphic memoir 'Worm'

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Decades before Edel Rodriguez made his iconic, mouth-only political illustration of Donald Trump for the cover of Time magazine, he was a boy growing up in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

In his new graphic memoir, “Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey,” Rodriguez mixes historical context and personal stories to recount his harrowing journey growing up under — then escaping — Communism and authoritarianism in Cuba, as well as the warning signs he recognizes in America today.

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