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Vida
Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent...
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Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent and promise. Vida follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family. In "Lucho," Sabina's family--already "foreigners in a town of blancos"--is shunned by the community when a relative commits an unspeakable act of violence, but she is in turn befriended by the town bad boy who has a secret of his own; in "Desaliento," Sabina surrounds herself with other young drifters who spend their time looking for love and then fleeing from it--until reality catches up with one of them; and in "Vida," the urgency of Sabina's self-imposed exile in Miami fades when she meets an enigmatic Colombian woman with a tragic past. Patricia Engel maps landscapes both actual and interior in this stunning debut, and the constant throughout is Sabina--serious, witty, alternately cautious and reckless, open to transformation yet skeptical of its lasting power. Infused by a hard-won, edgy wisdom, Vida introduces a sensational new literary voice.
Author: Patricia Engel
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.34h x 5.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780802170781
Award: Florida Book Award - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Finalist
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 07/05/2010
New York Times Book Review 10/10/2010 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 10/17/2010 pg. 26
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/05/2010 pg. 29
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
About the Author
Patricia Engel's debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, Young Lions Fiction Award, winner of a Florida Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes & Noble, and L.A. Weekly. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in A Public Space, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Guernica, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, she is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. Patricia lives in Miami. patriciaengel.com
Author: Patricia Engel
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.34h x 5.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780802170781
Award: Florida Book Award - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Finalist
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 07/05/2010
New York Times Book Review 10/10/2010 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 10/17/2010 pg. 26
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/05/2010 pg. 29
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
About the Author
Patricia Engel's debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, Young Lions Fiction Award, winner of a Florida Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes & Noble, and L.A. Weekly. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in A Public Space, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Guernica, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, she is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. Patricia lives in Miami. patriciaengel.com
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