We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories

by Achy Obejas

Overview

Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just surviving. As omniscient narrator to her characters' lives, Obejas generously delves into her own memories of exile and alienation to tell stories about women and men who struggle for wholeness and love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780939416936
Publisher:	Cleis Press
Publication date:	08/16/1994
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Achy Obejas is also the author of We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? and Days of Awe. She has won numerous writing awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the 1996 Studs Terkel Journalism Award. She lives in Chicago.

What People are Saying About This

Dennis Cooper

Achy Obejas is an impeccable writer with a special gift for decoding interpersonal tensions and feelings. In these deceptively measured stories, the lives of lesbians and gay men acquires a meaning that transcends issues of sexual identity. In her hands, the world resonantes with an indelible wholeness. A fierce and significant new voice.

Luiz Rodriguez

Achy Obejas' stories pull you in: the ushakable images, the poetry, the living truth of her lived-in voice. And they push you out: more aware, maybe; sense is fraught, perhaps; but, if anything, more adjoined to the complexities of and depths of women, interaction, and love.

Julia Alvarez

A writer of gutsy humor and heart.

Oscar Hijuelos

An exciting collection -- eye-opening and insightful...