Best that you can do (Compilation)

The best that you can do : stories / Amina Gautier.

First Soft Skull edition.

New York : Soft Skull, [2024]

227 pages ; 21 cm

"Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the cultural confusion of being one person in two places - of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place readers at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families"-- Provided by publisher.

English

March 12, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).