Sabrina & Corina, Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart, believable in everything they said and did. How tragic that American letters hasnt met these women of the West before, women who were here before America was America. And how tragic that these working-class women havent seen themselves in the pages of American lit before. Thank you for honoring their lives, Kali. I welcome them and you.--Sandra Cisneros

Kali Fajardo-Anstines collection of stories, Sabrina & Corina, isnt just good, its masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. . . . Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth. Comparisons came to mind: the Alice Munro of the high plains, the Toni Morrison of indigenous Latinas--but why compare her to anybody? She is her own unique voice, and her work will easily find a place, not just in Latinx literature, but in American literature and beyond.--Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents