Prolonged Embrace

Prolonged Embrace is a deeply intimate memoir about family, memory, migration, grief, and enduring love across generations of Cuban women. Through vivid recollections of childhood in Matanzas, music -filled birthdays, spiritual rituals, illness and loss, Adianes Ponce reconstructs the emotional landscape shaped by her grandmother's unwavering presence. Although her grandmother never had the opportunity to travel beyond Cuba, this memoir becomes a way of carrying her voice, her memory, and her love to the wider world. Blending tenderness, cultural memory, and spiritual reflection, the book explores how love survives absence and continues living within us.