Born in Santiago de Cuba, Reyes left Cuba with his parents via Costa Rica, before settling permanently in Miami in 1982.
In it, he talks about his childhood days in a small town called Boniato on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba.
The book itself, based on a family emergency, became also an analysis of Cuba's present condition as viewed by Reyes himself.
Reyes's method of choosing to write his Cuban memoirs displayed some writing skills for which he has been noted, mainly: In 2003, Reyes surprised his readership by publishing, among other things, a book of poems titled, My Words Mean Something.
Poetry, however, is the genre Reyes returned to with the publication of "Day's Night," published in 2014.