The Cuban women who whisper to cigar rollers

The Cuban women who whisper to cigar rollers

Felicia Alejandra Torres Rodríguez sits down and rings the bell. Seconds later, the cigar rollers take off their headphones and put away their cell phones.La lectora— the cigar reader — arrives punctually at 11:00 a.m. to read the second batch of the day, which is a fragment of one of Eliseo Grenet’s songs: “You will be, like green tobacco in the sea, a slumber of life in the burning and beloved land of God.”

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