Chantel Acevedo at Watchung Booksellers

Please join Out Montclair & Latinos of Montclair this Thursday June 25, 2026, 7:00-8:00 PM, at Watchung Booksellers, 44 Fairfield St. Montclair, NJ to hear the author of “Cages” Chantel Acevedo, who will be in conversation with author/artist/translator Erika Morillo.

Tickets are $5 and include a 10% discount on book purchase at the event.

“Acevedo has written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century.”—Junot Diaz

A sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him.

Cages is the story of Felix—a zookeeper in Cuba during the time of the missile crisis, an exile in swinging sixties London, and finally a dying man in 1980s AIDS-era Miami. In this daring novel, Acevedo’s most personal and heartfelt to date, the fragments of Felix’s story are put together like pieces of a puzzle by one knew him mostly as an absence. 

Spanning Havana, London, and Miami over a thirty-year arc, Cages explores exile, forbidden love, fractured families, the nature of truth, and the stories we tell to make sense of the people we cannot forget.