Description
| Product ID: | 9781950774616 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | American Reader Series |
| Title: | Are We Ever Our Own |
| Authors: | Author: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes's award-winning short story collection traces the Cuban diaspora through the struggles and triumphs of the Castell family's women. 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? |
| Imprint Name: | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Publisher Name: | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-07 |
