In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"

At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Adela Ferrer’s husband made an impossible decision. Her husband had fled Havana for New York, and she planned to take her two children and join him. But instead, she was forced to bring only her daughter, leaving her 9-year-old son behind. That daughter – Ada Ferrer – is out with a new memoir called Keeper of My Kin . In today’s episode, she speaks with NPR’s…