Sabrina & Corina : stories / Kali Fajardo-Anstine.
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection-a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. "Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."--Sandra Cisneros Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado-a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite-these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In "Sugar Babies," ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. "Any Further West" follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In "Tomi," a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, "Sabrina & Corina," a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home. Advance praise for Sabrina & Corina "Sabrina & Corina isn't just good, it's masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth."-Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents "A terrific collection of stories-fiercely and beautifully made."--Joy Williams "Fajardo-Anstine's prose blossoms on the page; her scenes and characters develop so vividly that they're likely to leave an impression lasting long after you stop reading."-BuzzFeed News.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525511311
- ISBN: 0525511318
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2019]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Sugar babies -- Sabrina & Corina -- Sisters -- Remedies -- Julian Plaza -- Galapago -- Cheesman Park -- Tomi -- Any further west -- All her names -- Ghost sickness. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Hispanic American women > Fiction. FICTION > Hispanic & Latino. Hispanic American women. |
Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. Short stories. Short stories. |