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STAFF WRITER: Guy Garcia...
...Cristina Garcia...
...impressive first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia takes back her island. A former TIME correspondent and Miami bureau chief, Garcia left Havana with her family when she was two. Her 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...
...Garcia's imagination is ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
BOOKS Sensuous dreams of Cubans: Cristina Garcia's first novel...