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Ana Menéndez
Ana Menéndez is a Journalist-turned-fiction writer and the author of the debut collection of stories, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (2001). Sweet, bitter, magical and true-to-life the collection chronicles the struggles of Cuban-Americans to make a living, maintain dignity, preserve identity, cope with new surroundings, and find humor in modern Miami.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Books containing stories by Ana Menéndez
One World Two (2016)
A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
(One World, book 2)
edited by
Chris Brazier
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Old School Indian (2025)
Aaron John Curtis
"Reading this book was cold water on a summer day. Aaron John Curtis descends into the divided self to bring forth a hilarious, profound and unsentimentally wise story of a Mohawk family and one son's search for relief that transcends the physical. A gorgeous exploration of the restorative bonds of kin, the wages of history, and the stories that break and remake us."
American Ending (2023)
Mary Kay Zuravleff
"I fell in love with Yelena - from the very start she reminded me of My Antonia! So many stories of immigration focus on the men, but it's the women who kept the family together, had the courage to leave their villages, who stuck it out in a strange land. In American Ending, Mary Kay Zuravleff has created an unforgettable heroine, one with the courage to write her own story and the creativity and heart to not just pull herself out of her circumstances, but to bring others with her. That is one of the great achievements of this novel: Not just the individual grit of the immigrant, but the communal spirit that lifts all the newcomers, the thousands strands that bind us all together, the activists who make sure that fairness prevails, the unions. It is such a deeply felt, humane and timeless treatment of a timeless story. And it gives so much to reflect upon in our current moment."
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