Calle Santa Irene - Paperback
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Calle Santa Irene is a single street in Havana - six households bound by proximity, rivalry, and the particular intimacy of people who've watched each other's children grow up. Through 1957, 1958, and the first turbulent months of 1959, the street's families navigate arrests, informants, disappearances, and a revolution that arrives with music and flags before anyone understands what it will actually cost.
There's the storekeeper's family at its center, a journalist whose defiance draws dangerous attention, a senator who believes proximity to power will protect him, and a woman whose small betrayals prove far more consequential than anyone on the street initially believes. As Batista falls and Castro rises, the street's residents each decide, in their own way, what they're willing to risk, defend, or finally admit they got wrong.
A prequel to A Childhood in Ninety Miles, and a street-level portrait of a country changing hands.
Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.
Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.
He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.
These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.
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