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Barbara de la Cuesta
"Art gotta be high up and dangerous," the graffiti artist tells his mother. It has to be practiced diligently like playing the piano, the longtime members of a life drawing…
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Barbara de la Cuesta’s novella, The Mists, is a fascinating read. The characters are pulled into the midst of conflict and self awareness in the misty mountains of Central America…
Once a famous hostess in foreign capitals, Henrietta Rose, felled by drink loses family and health and ends up in a HUD subsidized apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts. Despite her losses…
Adam's Chair is a narrative of one day in 1981 in Waltham Massachusetts. The shuttle, Columbia, orbits above.
An elderly French Canadian escapes his sleeping wife and makes his way…
Rosamundo is a lyrical invocation of past present and future Waltham, Massachusetts, set in the streets, day centers, and church basements on one day in 1981 while the shuttle Columbia…
Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award
…De la Cuesta’s novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader’s attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordonez, but…
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In l967, three young North Americans, Willi, Carl, and Blanche, set out in an old Buick to visit an uncle of Willi’s who lives in Central America. Willi, a Marxist…
"...De la Cuesta's novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader's attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordonez, but…
A daring, funny, and emotional story about a woman moving her life out of the margins and into the sun with the power of confession.
