I Gave You All I Had gives us Cuca Martinez, the youngest child in a brood of five born in pre-revoltionary Cuba.This wonderfully lyrical novel sings Cuca"s life-sing from childhood through motherhood as she fights to survive and be happy in a world oh which fortune has consistently failed to smile.While Cuca waits for the return of her true love from America, Cuba slowly descends into a repressive slumber, in which Cuca and her friends pass the time by remembering, loving and talking.I Gave You All I Had is an outrageously funny, erotically charged, and daring novel.