Achy Obejas, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-43921-5
Born the day Castro came to power, the protagonist of this thoughtful novel comes with her mother and father to the United States when she is two, but cannot ignore her tangled Cuban roots. Alejandra San José and her parents, Nena and Enrique,...
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Achy Obejas, Author . Akashic $15.95 (355p) ISBN 978-1-933354-38-5
The 17th in Akashic’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies is the first with a non-Anglo setting (the two earlier non-U.S. locales were London and Dublin). The choice to collect Cuban stories was a smart one: it will expose American...
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Achy Obejas, Author . Akashic $15.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-933354-69-9
In 1994 Havana, times are hard: for maladroitly named Usnavy and his family, home is one windowless, sparsely furnished room, and rationing is so tight that “pieces of a blanket... beaten and marinated in spices and a little beef broth”...
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Achy Obejas, Author Cleis Press $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-57344-017-2
The power and meaning of memory lie at the heart of Obejas's (We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?) insightful and excellent second work of fiction. With a prose so crisp, the book could pass for a biography, Obejas introduces
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Achy Obejas. Akashic, $19.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-61775-539-2
Questions of personal and national identity percolate through the stories in Obejas’s (Ruins) memorable short fiction collection, most of which is set in Cuba, the author’s birthplace. In “The Cola of Oblivion,” a family of Cuban nationals try to...
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