Cristina Garcia
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place of birth
Havana, Cuba
influences
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka
about this author
After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, Garcia turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her fourth novel, A Handbook to Luck, was released in hardcover in 2007 and came out in paperback in April 2008.
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quotes by Cristina Garcia
"You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it."
— Cristina Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban)
— Cristina Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban)














