Sabrina & Corina

<b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &#149; Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection&#151;a powerful meditation on friendship mothers and daughters and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.&#160;</b><br><br><b>&#147;Here are stories that blaze like wildfires with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.&#148;&#151;Sandra Cisneros</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD &#149; FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE &#149; FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION</b><br><br> Kali Fajardo-Anstine&#146;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&#151;a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite&#151;these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution grace and quiet force.<br><br> In &#147;Sugar Babies&#148; ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. &#147;Any Further West&#148; 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 &#147;Tomi&#148; 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 &#147;Sabrina &amp; Corina&#148; a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women coming together only through ritual.<br><br> <i>Sabrina &amp; 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.<br><br><b><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Public Library &#149;&#160;<i>Kirkus Reviews&#160;</i>&#149;&#160;<i>Library Journal</i>&#160;</b></b><br><br> &#147;<i>Sabrina &amp; Corina</i>&#160;isn&#146;t just good it&#146;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.&#148;<b>&#151;Julia Alvarez author of <i>How the Garc&#237;a Girls Lost Their Accents</i></b><br><br>&#147;[A] powerhouse debut&#160;. . . stylistically superb with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters&#160;<i>Sabrina &amp; Corina</i>&#160;introduces&#160;an impressive new talent to American letters.&#148;<b>&#151;Rigoberto Gonz&#225;lez NBC News</b>