Sabrina & Corina

<p><strong>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &bull; Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection&mdash;a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.&nbsp;</strong><br /><br /><strong>"Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."&mdash;Sandra Cisneros</strong><br /><br /><strong>WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD &bull; FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE &bull; FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION</strong><br /><br />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&mdash;a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite&mdash;these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.<br /><br />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 &amp; Corina,"a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.<br /><br /><em>Sabrina &amp; Corina</em>&nbsp;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 /><strong><strong>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Public Library &bull;&nbsp;<em>Kirkus Reviews&nbsp;</em>&bull;&nbsp;<em>Library Journal</em>&nbsp;</strong></strong><br /><br /><em>"Sabrina &amp; Corina</em>&nbsp;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."<strong>&mdash;Julia Alvarez, author of&nbsp;<em>How the Garc&iacute;a Girls Lost Their Accents</em></strong><br /><br />"[A] powerhouse debut&nbsp;. . . stylistically superb, with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters,&nbsp;<em>Sabrina &amp; Corina</em>&nbsp;introduces&nbsp;an impressive new talent to American letters."<strong>&mdash;Rigoberto Gonz&aacute;lez, NBC News</strong></p>