My life in 8 words: "writing, chocolate, my daughter, music, salsa dancing, photography"
November 17, 2008
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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The Lady Matador's Hotel will be released on September 07, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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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 September 22, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox will be released on September 22, 2009 in eBook
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox is now available in eBook
Sep 22, 2009
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How would you describe perfect happiness?Apr 03, 2009
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox will be released on September 22, 2009 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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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox is now available in Hardcover
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The Dog Who Loved the Moon will be released on April 08, 2008 in Hardcover
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How would you describe your life in only 8 words?Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Speaking Spanish (or French, or Chinese, or Arabic)Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Cristina Garcia's Books
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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 -
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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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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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...
New America Media, May 16, 2009
...on immigrant women. Essayist Richard Rodgriguez on how women living without men has implications for all of society. Cristina Garcia on her novel The Handbook OF Good Luck about strong immigrant women. India West reporter Lisa Tsering on her award...
Missoulian, May 16, 2009
...knows where your next book will come from? We have it: Staff reviewsI Wanna Be Your Shoebox, by Cristina Garcia, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008, find it at: Y GARCIA Eighth-grader Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch loves the clarinet, loves to surf, loves...
Miami Herald, April 27, 2009
...s such an important book, because it's the first encounter many non-Latinos had with Latino culture,'' says Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban and The Handbook for Luck. ''This is one of those books that's a bridge to the culture, and there's a...
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...
Okefenokee Book Club, May 28, 2009
...I am reading Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting, published in 2003 , about a Chinese man who thought he was going to Cuba to work and get rich but instead was enslaved. The story covers...
pages turned, April 22, 2009
...I have a copy of 2666 on hand, but of course I haven't read it. I read Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban with the Slaves last spring. 4. How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American? This is where it really gets shameful. If I count...
