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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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King of Cuba is now available in Hardcover, eBook
May 21, 2013
King of Cuba will be released on May 21, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
May 21, 2013
Dreams of Significant Girls will be released on May 22, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 22, 2012
Dreams of Significant Girls is now available in Trade Paperback
May 22, 2012
The Lady Matador's Hotel will be released on January 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Jan 03, 2012
The Lady Matador's Hotel is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 03, 2012
The Dog Who Loved the Moon will be released on October 04, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Oct 04, 2011
The Dog Who Loved the Moon is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 04, 2011
Dreams of Significant Girls will be released on July 12, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
Dreams of Significant Girls is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Dreams of Significant GirlsJul 06, 2011
The Lady Matador's Hotel will be released on September 07, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 07, 2010
The Lady Matador's Hotel is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 07, 2010
Jul 21, 2010
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Cristina García appearancesJun 15, 2010
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 22, 2009
Cristina Garcia's Books
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King of CubaAn entertaining and richly satisfying story featuring a fictionalized Fidel Castro and a revenge-obsessed octogenarian Cuban exile.Read More -
Dreams of Significant GirlsNational Book Award finalist, Cristina Garcia, writes this stunning story of a friendship formed over the course of three summers.Read 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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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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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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MySanAntonio, June 5, 2013
...While frosty weather and a roaring fireplace seem to make us want to savor the classics, more provocative reads go hand-in-hand with summer swelter and flip-flops. Not mindless, but not existential, either. Just quick and entertaining. Here are five new...
Elle, May 21, 2013
...or with buoyant denial, an active sex life, and plenty of fight, like the two combative octogenarians in Cristina Garcia's darkly hilarious new novel, King of Cuba (Scribner). In Cuba, a ruthless dictator, El Comandante (a thinly veiled Fidel Castro),...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 17, 2013
...this light-hearted yet informative portrait of the public house and the centuries of history. King of Cuba by Cristina Garcia (Scribner) - In her new novel, Garcia explores the hatred Goyo Herrera, an expatriate geriatric Cuban, harbors toward his arch...
New York Times, April 26, 2013
...In The Flamethrowers, her frequently dazzling second novel, Rachel Kushner thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. Its an...
Victoria Advocate, April 11, 2013
...Ashley Martinez, 30, was in tears upon meeting one of her favorite literary heroes - Cuban-American author Cristina Garcia. Martinez moved to Victoria about a year ago when her husband was contracted to work for Caterpillar in Texas. To her surprise,...
Tenerife Resorts, April 10, 2013
...centre will also find several book and magazine shop representatives, exhibition spokespeople and authors Marino Pino Brumberg and Cristina Garcia Carballo. Prizes will be presented throughout the day for the Puerto de la Cruz drawing and story contest. ...
Victoria Advocate, April 9, 2013
...A desire to break free from the writing constraints of journalism lured Cuban-American author Cristina Garcia, 54, away from the newsroom and into a world of fiction. "I just felt that the stories I wanted to tell couldn't be contained in the 150 lines...
MySanAntonio, June 5, 2013
...While frosty weather and a roaring fireplace seem to make us want to savor the classics, more provocative reads go hand-in-hand with summer swelter and flip-flops. Not mindless, but not existential, either. Just quick and entertaining. Here are five new...
Philippine Star, June 1, 2013
...large. Earlier, Cagayan Police Director Senior Superintendent Gregorio Lim filed charges of robbery in band against NPA rebels Cristina Garcia alias Ka Senyang and Revo Bernardo Perdian Jr. for leading a raid on a grains warehouse in Imurung, Baggao...
IndiaPost, June 1, 2013
...up a notch, but the political engagement continued just as vigorously as Assemblymembers Mariko Yamada, Paul Fong and Cristina Garcia addressed the gathering just before the event officially came to a close. Support from the Asian and Latino members of...
Daily World, May 30, 2013
...to do our part to be safe.” Shortly before Toontown closed for fireworks at 8:30 p.m., Cristina Garcia of Napa was still shopping for Minnie shoes for her daughter, Brianna. “I wish there were a way to control stuff like that,” she said of the...
Alamosa Valley Courier, May 29, 2013
...3.76 Minga Francisco 3.53 Airik Garcia 3.85 Brianna Garcia 3.71 Jordan Garcia 3.14 Cristina Garcia 3.69 Daisy Garcia 4.00 Jasmin Garcia 3.23 Kevin Garcia 3.00 Monserrat Garcia-Chavez 3.57 Selene Garcia-Chavez 3.14 Billy Giron 3.57 ...
Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2013
...do our part to be safe." Shortly before Toontown closed for fireworks at 8:30 p.m., Cristina Garcia and her family were still shopping for Minnie shoes for her daughter, Brianna. "I wish there were a way to control stuff like that," Garcia said of the...
TMC Net, May 29, 2013
...do our part to be safe." Shortly before Toontown closed for fireworks at 8:30 p.m., Cristina Garcia of Napa was still shopping for Minnie shoes for her daughter, Brianna. "I wish there were a way to control stuff like that," she said of the explosion...
