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