Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author.
From the prize-winning title story-a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak-unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past.
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is at once "tender and sharp-fanged" as Ana Menéndez evocatively charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables, Florida, and explores whether any of us are capable, or even truly desirous, of outrunning our origins (
LA Weekly).
"With the grace of Margaret Atwood and the sensuality of Laura Esquivel," Menéndez makes an unforgettable debut "rich in metaphor, wisdom, and delicious subtlety" (
St. Petersburg Times).
