One of my favorite things about historical fiction is the window they provide into seldom studied chapters in history. Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar is an epistalory novel about a Jewish refugee putting down roots in Cuba while working to bring the rest of her family out of Poland during the horrors of the Second World War. Twelve year old Ester narrates her new and mostly welcoming life in Cuba in letters to the sister she left behind. It is based on the author’s own family story. It won a 2020 Pura Belpré Award and is from Nancy Paulson Books at Penguin Random House.