A COMING OF AGE FOR CUBAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Susannah Rodríguez Drissi

Susannah Rodríguez Drissi
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:16:41 +0000
Off the Press, book review, Cuban America, literature

Until recently, the main concern of Cuban-American fiction has been to voice first-generation narratives about burdens of exile. Inherited through family story-telling, these stories were central to epic narratives that originated in an island yet to be experienced first-hand. In this respect, Jennine Capó Crucet’s Make Your Home Among Strangers (St. Martins Press, 2015) and …