Are We Ever Our Own

First printing: 2,000 copies.

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the winner of the 2020 BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her debut novel, The Sleeping World, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books imprint in 2017 and received wide acclaim in journals such as Publishers Weekly, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times Book ReviewThe stories in Are We Ever Our OwnStories in this collection have previously appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Big Fiction, The Common, The New England Review, One Story, Slice Magazine, and Western Humanities ReviewStrong regional appeal in Florida, the Midwest, Chicago, Texas, New York, New Jersey, and other areas with large Cuban-American communities.