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Cristina Garcia
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born
Havana, Cuba
website
influences
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka
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I was lucky enough to grow up speaking Spanish at home. It wasn't like I had a choice, at first. Although my mother had studied English back in Cuba, she could barely get around a supermarket or through a checkout stand without my help. Before I knew what the word meant, I was “code-switching”; translating meanings and nuances from one language to another. I took for granted the fact that I had...
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Dreaming in Cuban
— published 1992 — 19 editions |
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The Agüero Sisters
— published 1997 — 14 editions |
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The Lady Matador's Hotel
— published 2010 — 5 editions |
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Monkey Hunting
— published 2003 — 6 editions |
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Dreams of Significant Girls
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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A Handbook to Luck
— published 2007 — 12 editions |
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
— published 2008 — 11 editions |
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Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
by Cristina Garcia , Samuel Ramos , Carlos Fuentes — published 2006 — 6 editions |
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The Lesser Tragedy of Death
by Cristina Garcia, Chris Abani — published 2010 — 3 editions |
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Cubanisimo!: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
— published 2003 — 2 editions |
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October 2009,
Cristina Garcia
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? CG: writing, chocolate, my daughter, music, salsa dancing, photography SS: What is your motto or maxim? CG: The weirder, the better What Readers want to know... SS: How would you descr..." ...More
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? CG: writing, chocolate, my daughter, music, salsa dancing, photography SS: What is your motto or maxim? CG: The weirder, the better What Readers want to know... SS: How would you descr..." ...More
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“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”
― Cristina Garcia, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
― Cristina Garcia, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
“You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.”
― Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
― Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
“Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.”
― Cristina Garcia, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
― Cristina Garcia, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
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