Vida

A New York Times Notable Book, an NPR Best Debut of the Year, and a PEN/Hemingway finalist.

These linked stories follow Sabina as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora, and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family.

In "Lucho," Sabina's family-already "foreigners in a town of blancos"-is shunned by the community when a relative commits an unspeakable act of violence, but she is in turn bef...