Cuban Irish American author Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes effortlessly displays both craft and narrative in the 11 loosely interlinked stories of Are We Ever Our Own...With deft precision, Fuentes parses a compelling multigenerational history of womanhood revealed through complicated relationships, disturbing violence, wrenching longing and sometimes, bittersweet, hard-won autonomy.
Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, this follow-up to Fuentes’s debut novel, The Sleeping World, bracingly profiles women in the Armando Castell family, originally from Cuba but 'strewn across tiny islands and vast continents' and over decades as well...Lyrical if tough-minded stories linked by their strong portraiture of women who resist being appropriated by anyone
Fuentes’s haunting and lyrical collection explores Cuba’s legacy of wars and far-flung diaspora...In luminous prose, Fuentes offers insights on themes of belonging, national identity, and family...With these finely crafted and wide-ranging stories, Fuentes’s talent is on full display.
