The Tribe's fragments, which are teeming with life and compulsively readable, combine to create an amazing mosaic of contemporary Cuba. One of Latin America's most promising young authors, Carlos Manuel Lvarez, uses the cr?nica form, a style unique to the region that combines reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelistic forms, to shed light on a period of particularly turbulent events in Cuban history, including the restoration of diplomatic ties with the US, Fidel Castro's passing, and the upheavals of the San Isidro Movement.