One last comment on Copellia.

Copellia has become such an icon in Havana that I couldn’t resist using it for one of the scenes in my new novel Crosshairs on Castro that’s coming out in a few weeks. Then I got nagged by a suspicion that Copellia might not have existed in 1962 which is when the novel is set. Sure enough, when I looked into it, Copellia didn’t open until 1966. That’s one of the perils of writing historical fiction.

I kept the scene, but shifted it from Copellia to even better  Havana establishment, the restaurant El Floridita.