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2 reviews
Louis A.,Jr. Perez, Ambrosio Fornet

University of New Mexico Press, 2002

Excellent Photography and Insight into Cuba!
I was drawn to the book by the powerful and fun photographic images. Ledbetter does an outstanding job capturing the images of Cuban life in a way that allows you to both celebrate it and to empathise with the struggle of the Cuban people. The Essays are an unexpected extra in a book of this nature that make the work a multi-dimensional experience. It appeals to those interested in both ...

Days of Awe (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

11 reviews
Achy Obejas

Ballantine Books, 2002

Superb.
This book is lyrically written, emotionally wrenching, and an excellent guide into the mysterious ways of both the Cuban Jewish community and its history as well as the Cuban Revolution. It's a challenging novel, full of poetry and questions about life and how we maneuver our way through it. It's also a deeply spiritual book, with insight about how religions work, and the true meaning of faith. ...

We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories

4 reviews
Achy Obejas

Cleis Press, 1994

Moving and Strong
The title story is just devastatingly beautiful. I've read and heard many stories about coming to the United States from Cuba, but this one so vividly conveys the emotions of discovery and loss that a part of being an exile, I wept. I teach a course on US Latino Literature, and I will now ask my students to read this. And anyone else I can convince.

Story (Winter 1998)
Jean Fong Kwok, Melanie Sumner, ...

F & W Publications, 1998

Havana Noir (Akashic Noir)

1 review

Akashic Books, 2007

Beautiful and gritty
Beautiful and soooooooo gritty, this is a must-read if you're a mystery or noir fan, or if you just appreciate a really good story. The stories in the book are amazingly varied, and give incredible insight into a lot of different characters -- the desperate, the lonely, the morally bankrupt, the loving. Truly, five stars.

This Is What Happened in Our Other Life
Achy Obejas

A Midsummer Night's Press, 2007

At last, the first collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award winning Cuban-American author Achy Obejas! The poems in This Is What Happened In Our Other Life form a handbook of desire, navigating a course through the often-rocky landscapes of loving and living, while also charting the complexities of identity as the author explores her relationship to her lovers, her roots, her history, herself. As in her ...

Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

Duke University Press, 2008

The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as José Alcántara Almánzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an ...

Memory Mambo: A Novel

11 reviews
Achy Obejas

Cleis Press, 1996

what a dance of remembrance ! - one you won't forget !
Achy Obejas, in her "Memory Mambo," writes creatively and cleverly of -- among other things -- as the title suggests, the very complex dance that our minds do when confronted with unforgettable (if altered) images that are subjectively recorded, subconsciously stored, and blurred by the rose-tinted lens of a hawk-like ego-defense! She does so via her creation of an alienated Juani Casas, a ...

Ruins
Achy Obejas

Akashic Books, 2009

"Obejas writes like an angel: flush with power, vision, hope. . . . [One of the] Caribbean's most important writers."-Junot Daz When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, Usnavy was just a young man and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. But as the years have passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the glories, and he's become increasingly isolated. Achy Obejas is the author of various books, including the award-winning novel Days ...