Dreaming in Cuban

Impressive … [Cristina Garcia’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond, ’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny More. –Time Cristina Garcia’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author.

Praise for Dreaming in Cuban

Remarkable … an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic … evocative and lush. –San Francisco Chronicle

Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose. –The Washington Post

Brilliant … With tremendous skill, passion and humor, Garcia just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind. –The Denver Post