Are We Ever Our Own

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-07-07
Mått133 x 203 x 19 mm
Vikt254 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Reader Series
Antal sidor240
FörlagBOA Editions, Limited
ISBN9781950774616
UtmärkelserWinner of BOA Short Fiction Prize 2020 (United States)

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Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of Are We Ever Our Own, winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, and the novel The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared in New England Review, The Common, One Story, Cosmonauts Avenue, Slice, Pank, NANO Fiction, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. She grew up in a Cuban-Irish-American family in Wisconsin. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches creative writing and Latinx literature.

“Are We EverOur Own isa cabinet of wonders filled with uncanny intersections between the mythic andthe daily, the spectral and the earthed…. Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes writes withmarvelous insight into how the untold stories of the past can continue to hauntthe present, and crafts structures that delight and devastate in equalmeasure—that feel as immense as time itself.”—Laura van den Berg,author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears and TheThird Hotel