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Achy Obejas
ACHY OBEJAS is the author of various books, including the award-winning novel Days of Awe and the best-selling poetry chapbook This Is What Happened in Our Other Life. She is the editor of Akashic's critically acclaimed crime-fiction anthology Havana Noir, the author of Ruins, and the translator... show more

ACHY OBEJAS is the author of various books, including the award-winning novel Days of Awe and the best-selling poetry chapbook This Is What Happened in Our Other Life. She is the editor of Akashic's critically acclaimed crime-fiction anthology Havana Noir, the author of Ruins, and the translator (into Spanish) for Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Currently, she is the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana and continues to spend extended time there.
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Literature & Fiction, Poetry
Achy Obejas's Books
Ruins - Achy Obejas Days of Awe - Achy Obejas We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories - Achy Obejas Havana Noir - Achy Obejas Barcelona Noir - Adriana V. Lopez, Carmen Ospina, Achy Obejas Memory Mambo - Achy Obejas One Hundred Bottles - Ena Lucia Portela, Achy Obejas Everyone Leaves - Wendy Guerra, Achy Obejas The Tower of the Antilles (short stories) - Achy Obejas This Is What Happened in Our Other Life - Achy Obejas Memory Mambo: A Novel - Achy Obejas Tell Me What You Want - Megan Maxwell, A... Tell Me What You Want - Megan Maxwell, Achy Obejas The Price of Paradise - Achy Obejas, Susana López Rubio Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far) - Richard Labonté, Lawrence Schimel, Achy Obejas, Andy Quan, R.M. Vaughan, Michael Rowe, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jeff Mann, Natty Soltesz, Amber Dawn, S. Bear Bergman, Paul Bellini, Daniel Allen Cox, Stacey May Fowles, Sky Gilbert, Terry Goldie, Greg Herren, Stacia Sea Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives... Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women - Erika M Mart-Nez, Achy Obejas Story Magazine [Winter 1998] - Jean Fong Kwok, Melanie Sumner, Aimee Bender, Julia Slavin, Achy Obejas, Marian Mathews Clark, Donald Rawley, Tony Taddei, Perical Everett, Sanjay Nigam Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices - ... Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices - Achy Obejas, Daniel Alarcón, Meena Alexander, Sefi Atta, Edwidge Danticat, Carolina De Robertis, Junot Díaz, Roberto G. Fernández, M. Evelina Galang, Megan Bayles
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The Price of Paradise - Achy Obejas, Susana López Rubio
The Tower of the Antilles (short stories) - Achy Obejas
Tell Me What You Want - Megan Maxwell, A... Tell Me What You Want - Megan Maxwell, Achy Obejas
One Hundred Bottles - Ena Lucia Portela, Achy Obejas
Ruins - Achy Obejas
Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices - ... Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices - Achy Obejas, Daniel Alarcón, Meena Alexander, Sefi Atta, Edwidge Danticat, Carolina De Robertis, Junot Díaz, Roberto G. Fernández, M. Evelina Galang, Megan Bayles
Memory Mambo - Achy Obejas
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories - Achy Obejas
Barcelona Noir - Adriana V. Lopez, Carmen Ospina, Achy Obejas
Days of Awe - Achy Obejas
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Michelle CH
Michelle CH rated it 13 years ago
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If the main character hadn't been so self-absorbed and whiny, I think I would have enjoyed the story more. The conflict between being Cuban and Jewish would have been made so much stronger without the shallow characters and random, almost forced, sex scenes. There are so many better writings explori...
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Cheryl's books
Cheryl's books rated it 15 years ago
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This is the first story I’ve read written by a Cuban and taking place in Cuba. I had only very vague and general impressions of Cuba, from snippets of conversation with others, Canadians who have vacationed in Cuba. It is still favoured by Canadians who want a vacation in a sunny spot, with nice b...
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popsiclesinbed
popsiclesinbed rated it 15 years ago
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This novel makes me want to learn more about Cuba. Ruins is about an "old" man who was once a young revolutionary. Living in Havana in the early 1990s, he conflicted between his persisting belief in the Revolution and the wasteland that Cuba has become and which nearly all of the Cubans in the novel...
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