Sabrina & Corina Stories

<b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - 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. </b> <p><b>"Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."--Sandra Cisneros</b> <p><b>WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION</b> <p> 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. <p> 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. <p> <i>Sabrina & Corina</i> is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home. <p><b><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Public Library - <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>- <i>Library Journal</i> </b></b> <p> "<i>Sabrina & Corina</i> 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."<b>--Julia Alvarez, author of <i>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</i></b> <p>"[A] powerhouse debut . . . stylistically superb, with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters, <i>Sabrina & Corina</i> introduces an impressive new talent to American letters."<b>--Rigoberto González, NBC News</b>