Sabrina & Corina: Stories

Sabrina & Corina: Stories

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST â€¢ Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collectionâ€”a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.Â

â€œHere are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.â€â€”Sandra Cisneros

FINALST FOR THE STORY PRIZE â€¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION

Kali Fajardo-Anstineâ€™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, Coloradoâ€”a place that is as fierce as it is exquisiteâ€”these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.

In â€œSugar Babies,â€ ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. â€œAny Further Westâ€ 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 â€œTomi,â€ 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, â€œSabrina & Corina,â€ 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.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Public Library â€¢Â Kirkus ReviewsÂ â€¢Â Library JournalÂ

â€œSabrina & CorinaÂ isnâ€™t just good, itâ€™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.â€â€”Julia Alvarez, author of How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents

â€œ[A] powerhouse debutÂ . . . stylistically superb, with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters,Â Sabrina & CorinaÂ introducesÂ an impressive new talent to American letters.â€â€”Rigoberto GonzÃ¡lez, NBC News
Country USA
Brand One World
Manufacturer One World
Binding Hardcover
Color White
ReleaseDate 2019-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780525511298

Country	USA
Brand	One World
Manufacturer	One World
Binding	Hardcover
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780525511298

Sabrina & Corina: Stories

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