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I was lucky enough to grow up speaking Spanish at home. It wasn't like I had a choice, at first. Although my mother...
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox is now available in Trade Paperback
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox will be released on July 29, 2008 in Hardcover
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Cristina Garcia's Books
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The Lady Matador's HotelFrom National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcia, a dazzling novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotelRead More
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I Wanna Be Your ShoeboxEverything in Yumi's life is changing. But as her Grandfather shares his story, she learns that the chaos life brings is all part of growing up.Read More
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The Dog Who Loved the MoonFrom National Book Award-finalist Cristina Garcia comes a lyrical picture book about a young girl, a dog, and one magical nightRead More
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Chicago Tribune, August 19, 2010
..."The Lady Matador’s Hotel" By Cristina Garcia Scribner, 209 pages Reviewed by Carolyn Alessio, special to the Tribune Thirteen years ago, while spending a summer in a squatter settlement of Guatemala, I saw many incongruous things...
Huffington Post, May 19, 2010
...supportive, and celebratory atmosphere that is Calabash. This year's schedule includes Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Colson Whitehead, Cristina Garcia, Sharon Olds, Russell Banks, Billy Collins, and Nami Mun, along with workshop writers. For those...
Examiner.com, April 23, 2010
...of Books this Saturday and Sunday at UCLA, including top authors TC Boyle, Lisa See, Lev Grossman and Cristina Garcia, who all recently stopped by...
Inside Bay Area, February 2, 2010
...made writing her new job. She began taking workshops with well-known writers such as McMillan, Junot Diaz and Cristina Garcia. In 2005, she helped form The Finish Party. The group of eight women writers meets once a month to critique one another's...
Rebel Yell, October 8, 2009
...gives lecture on culture combination “I felt Cuban until I went to Cuba,” said Black Muntain Institute scholar Cristina Garcia at her book reading Tuesday. “That fracturing of identity was essential in me beginning to write.” Garcia, the author...
Las Vegas Review Journal, September 27, 2009
...at Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. 'A Reading with Cristina Garcia' will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in the UNLV Student Union Theatre, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Garcia, a Black Mountain Institute...
U-Wire.com, September 15, 2009
...perpetuating an exciting literary climate on campus. The new fellows, Timothy O?Grady, Lavonne Mueller, Judith Nies and Cristina Garcia, will work on independent projects at UNLV while in the institute?s Bennett Fellows Program. Through the three to...
Chatter, A Blog, August 3, 2010
...Here's what we're reading this week at Diesel!Anna in BrentwoodThe JokersBy Albert CosseryThis was the first of Bookslut's Jessa Crispin's Bright Books for Dark Times, and I can already feel it making everything a bit sunnier. The atypical...
Writing to Insanity, July 28, 2010
...semester of grad school residency has to be meeting two of my literary heroines and gaining another one. Cristina Garcia is artistic director of the Prt. Townsend Writer's Conference, which overlaps the summer residency. When I saw her on the schedule I...
TheHappyNappyBookseller, January 6, 2010
...Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low Ghost Town by Richard W. Jennings I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina Garcia Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur Sylvie and the Songman by Tim Binding Return to Sender by Julia...
American Taíno, January 3, 2010
...Carmen Tafolla Carmen U. Bernier Grand Cevile Pineda Charley Trujillo Cherrie Moraga Christine Granados Cindy Holby Coe Booth Cristina Garcia Cristina Henriquez Dagoberto Gilb Dan Vera Daniel A. Olivas Daniel Alarcon Daniel Chacón Daniel Reveles David...
e-Books Baba, December 26, 2009
...Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, Chicano literature, Junot Diaz, Dominican American literature, El Bronx Remembered, Cristina Garcia, Oscar Hijuelos, Hispanic American journalism, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, The Mambo...
Reading In Color, December 20, 2009
...and it sounds funny and sweet! Also I love the rating scale :) I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina Garcia Because Yumi RuÍz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan, Cuba, and Brooklyn, her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi...
Literanista, November 10, 2009
...Song of Despair Pablo Neruda The Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories Horacio Quiroga Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo Men of Maize Miguel Angel Asturias What's the...
American Taíno, September 28, 2009
...Carmen Tafolla Carmen U. Bernier Grand Cevile Pineda Charley Trujillo Cherrie Moraga Christine Granados Cindy Holby Coe Booth Cristina Garcia Cristina Henriquez Dagoberto Gilb Dan Vera Daniel A. Olivas Daniel Alarcon Daniel Chacón Daniel Reveles David...
American Taíno, September 27, 2009
...Carmen Tafolla Carmen U. Bernier Grand Cevile Pineda Charley Trujillo Cherrie Moraga Christine Granados Cindy Holby Coe Booth Cristina Garcia Cristina Henriquez Dagoberto Gilb Dan Vera Daniel A. Olivas Daniel Alarcon Daniel Chacón Daniel Reveles David...
