Are We Ever Our Own
Description
Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.
Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.
Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women's bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. (el primer fantasma)
- Ana Mendieta Haunts The Block
- II. (begin again)
- The Burial of Fidelia Armando Castell
- Two-Gallon Heart
- Palm Chess
- The Night of the Almiqui
- The Elephant's Foot
- Are We Ever Our Own
- Loli & Magda
- Mr. A and Company
- The Field of Professional Mourning
- III. (el fantasma final)
- The Ballad of Tam Lin
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon
