5.18.2006
Book 29
We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Stories by Achy Obejas
1994: Cleis Press
131 pages
Recommended by Maya Haynes
Began: 15 May 2006
Finished: 18 May 2006
Quick but not necessarily pleasant these are late 80s early 90s stories of Latina lesbian life in Chicago, homosexual men battling AIDS, Cuban counterrevolutioinaries, and junkies out of their minds. Read on the subway, I felt a layer of grime and fervant energy. While reading this book I also read a story of Lara Vapnyar's. I prefer Vapnyar but I am not sure what that means in the bigger scheme of it all. Obejas has a clear style and it is unrelenting. It is blunt and, while this book was not necessarily shocking, it is fearless and bold. I wonder what I would have felt reading this book ten years ago but right now it was just another taste of an approach to writing and getting worlds out onto paper for me to see if I like.
Quote: ""Besides, that you're American is an accident of geopgraphy," he said." ¶ 08:30
We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Stories by Achy Obejas
1994: Cleis Press
131 pages
Recommended by Maya Haynes
Began: 15 May 2006
Finished: 18 May 2006
Quick but not necessarily pleasant these are late 80s early 90s stories of Latina lesbian life in Chicago, homosexual men battling AIDS, Cuban counterrevolutioinaries, and junkies out of their minds. Read on the subway, I felt a layer of grime and fervant energy. While reading this book I also read a story of Lara Vapnyar's. I prefer Vapnyar but I am not sure what that means in the bigger scheme of it all. Obejas has a clear style and it is unrelenting. It is blunt and, while this book was not necessarily shocking, it is fearless and bold. I wonder what I would have felt reading this book ten years ago but right now it was just another taste of an approach to writing and getting worlds out onto paper for me to see if I like.
Quote: ""Besides, that you're American is an accident of geopgraphy," he said." ¶ 08:30
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go, erin! i admire your perserverance, especially after being abandoned by your reading partner. now's your chance to pull ahead as you finish the final stretch (or something like that).
Liz, I thank you. I am aiming for 40 in 6 months at this point. My students are demanding in their essay writing right now and I can't seem to tell them that recommended fiction is more important. I am tempted but...
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