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Cristina García


Cuba (b.1958)

Cristina García was born in Havana and grew up in New York City. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was nominated for a National Book Award and has been widely translated. Ms. García has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in California's Napa Valley with her daughter and husband.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
 
Novels
   Dreaming in Cuban (1992)
   The Aguero Sisters (1997)
   The Golden Mage (1998)
   Monkey Hunting (2003)
   A Handbook to Luck (2007)
   The Dog Who Loved the Moon (2008)
   I Wanna Be Your Shoebox (2008)
   The Lady Matador's Hotel (2010)
   Dreams of Significant Girls (2011)
   King of Cuba (2013)
   Here in Berlin (2017)
   Vanishing Maps (2023)
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Collections
   The Lesser Tragedy of Death (poems) (2010)
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Anthologies edited
   Bordering Fires (2006)
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Non fiction show
 
Cristina García recommends
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (2023)
Raul Palma
"Raul Palma's novel, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens, offers us hilarity and heartbreak in equal measure. With lush prose and an unerring eye, Palma chronicles the substrata of Miami - the human costs of immigration, poverty, debt, discrimination, and, yes, ghosts - beneath the city's breezy, tropical surface. A pitch-perfect debut."
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Holler, Child (2023)
LaToya Watkins
"Holler, Child forced me to stop everything I was doing and surrender to its stories - richly turbulent with faith, violence, sorrow, reckoning, and exquisite tenderness. LaToya Watkins weaves together character and place with a poetry that evokes Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. A heart-stopping collection."
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The Apartment (2023)
Ana Menéndez
"A dazzling inquiry into the disquietudes of time and place, of past and present, and the global exiles who inhabit the realms in-between. Menendez's exquisitely-wrought stories - emanating from the lifespan of one modest Miami apartment - offer us no less than the world. A masterful, poetic achievement."

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1992) : Dreaming in Cuban


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