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Sabrina & Corina
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National Book Award Longlist 2019. Fajardo-Anstine’s collection of short stories featuring Latinx and native women are bittersweet. There are themes of love, abandonment, betrayal, abuse, friendship, and mother-daughter relationships.
A parenting class project in ‘Sugar Babies’ has one of them reflecting on her own parents’ abandonment and neglect. In ‘Sabrina & Corina’, Corina’s grandmother insists that she use her make-up skills to obscure the strangle marks on Corina’s cousin’s neck so that the casket can be open. The process has Corina reflecting how her once-close cousin drifted away from family. Doty is bullied by her sister to ‘double-date’ in ‘Sisters’--but Doty’s date proves to be an abuser.
Families are a recurring theme. The children’s mother is dying of cancer in ‘Julian Plaza’ and it is hard for them to accept that the exuberant woman they once knew will never recover. After Pearla Ortiz is repeatedly robbed in ‘Galapago’, her granddaughter tries to move her out of her home of fifty-plus years. Nicole goes to live with her brother and his son after her release from prison in ‘Tomi’. She introduces Tomi to a world not dominated by video games. In ‘Ghost Sickness’, Ana studies at a nearby campus and rediscovers the importance of her Navajo ancestry.
Enjoy this debut effort from a promising new author.
A parenting class project in ‘Sugar Babies’ has one of them reflecting on her own parents’ abandonment and neglect. In ‘Sabrina & Corina’, Corina’s grandmother insists that she use her make-up skills to obscure the strangle marks on Corina’s cousin’s neck so that the casket can be open. The process has Corina reflecting how her once-close cousin drifted away from family. Doty is bullied by her sister to ‘double-date’ in ‘Sisters’--but Doty’s date proves to be an abuser.
Families are a recurring theme. The children’s mother is dying of cancer in ‘Julian Plaza’ and it is hard for them to accept that the exuberant woman they once knew will never recover. After Pearla Ortiz is repeatedly robbed in ‘Galapago’, her granddaughter tries to move her out of her home of fifty-plus years. Nicole goes to live with her brother and his son after her release from prison in ‘Tomi’. She introduces Tomi to a world not dominated by video games. In ‘Ghost Sickness’, Ana studies at a nearby campus and rediscovers the importance of her Navajo ancestry.
Enjoy this debut effort from a promising new author.
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