{"title":"Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of \u003cem\u003eAre We Ever Our Own\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2022) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Sleeping World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (Touchstone-Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2016). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eNew England Review, The Common, One Story, Cosmonauts Avenue, Slice, Pank, NANO Fiction, Western Humanities Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. She grew up in a Cuban-Irish-American family in Wisconsin. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches creative writing and Latinx literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"are-we-ever-our-own","title":"Are We Ever Our Own","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAre We Ever Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRelated but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLinked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAre We Ever Our Own\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Are We Ever Our Own \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a cabinet of wonders filled with uncanny intersections between the mythic and the daily, the spectral and the earthed…. Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes writes with marvelous insight into how the untold stories of the past can continue to haunt the present, and crafts structures that delight and devastate in equal measure—that feel as immense as time itself.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Laura van den Berg, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Hold a Wolf by the Ears\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Third Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"In the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, Circe promises her famed traveler to “set him a course,” and throughout the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eAre We Ever Our Own\u003c\/em\u003e Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes offers this same gift to her readers. Fuentes proves an adept cartographer as these stories unfold with ghosts, spells, the relic foot of an elephant, and a professional mourning service. Her pen contains some sorcery in its ink.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Sayre Baptista, for \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes writes with the poetic fierceness of Lorca, exploring multiple subjectivities in this lyrical story collection on love and art, loss and violence. Fuentes is a poignant and powerful voice in Latinx literature—and beyond.” \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePatricia Park, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe Jane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAre We Ever Our Own\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e reads like an arpeggio: the individual stories strike clear, distinctive notes that, when abutted, come together into a rich, resonant chord. From contemporary Marfa, Texas to revolutionary Cuba, from literal ghosts to implicit ones, the characters are entirely singular and individually rewarding, yet somehow—as the title suggests—somehow feel quietly present in each subsequent narrative. Though spirits and spells indeed appear in these pages, Fuentes doesn't simply write about magic in this collection; she's created it.” \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cb\u003eXhenet Aliu, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrass \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The stories in Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAre We Ever Our Own \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewill haunt readers long after they’ve finished. And perhaps that’s the point. Inventive, hallucinatory, chilling, and globe-spanning, this collection commands attention.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eChantel Acevedo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Distant Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41022833787051,"sku":"9781950774616","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/AreWeEverOurOwn_CVR_RGB_SM.jpg?v=1633656795"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Fuentes_author_photo_by_Ashley_Mathieu.jpg?v=1633455232","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/gabrielle-lucille-fuentes.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}