Cristina garcia biography author nora

Cristina Garcia's literary reputation is based on the publication of two novels in the 1990s, Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters. In these two works, she explores similar themes—how the actions of different generations affect each, sibling differences, geographic displacement, political and personal deterioration, delusion, and the implausibility of emotional intimacy between the sexes—though the second work takes a stylistically more mature approach.

Born in Cuba in 1958, Garcia arrived in the United States in 1960 during the first wave of Cuban emigration.

She was educated at Barnard College, studied at the School of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins, and worked as a reporter for Time magazine. Garcia was the first Cuban-America woman to publish a novel written in English; her work reflects the ongoing sensibility of those Cuban-Americans whose loyalties oscillate between Cuba and the United States.

Dreaming in Cuban