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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher |
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SABRINA & CORINA
Stories
SABRINA AND CORINA is a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
The unlikely heroines in these pages are indigenous Latina women, who up until now have rarely ever been given their time in the spotlight. Set against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado - a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite - these women navigate the land the way they navigate their own lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.
Sabrina and Corina draws from the author's own Southern Colorado heritage and life experiences living all over the Midwest and West of the United States. Kali describes herself and her characters as Chicana - with an origin ancestry of Pueblo Native American. It is eye-opening and fascinating to see these people through her eyes and words: historically, her characters come from a triple-colonized Southwestern U.S. that went from indigenous sovereignty to Spanish rule, then Mexican rule, and eventually the U.S. The subsequent intermingling of the indigenous culture with its European, Filipino, and ultimately Anglo American counterparts has led to a unique and complicated culture in New Mexico and Colorado that is so beautifully rendered in these pages. Race in the Southwest, particularly among Chicanos, is distorted and unclear but retains a deep connection to land and native ancestry. Kali's stories deliberately stay unclear on racial signifiers as a result - she wants her readers to experience the confusion and hybridity that is part of the Chicana experience.
In "Sugar Babies," ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth, but have the tendency to ascend during land disputes. In the title story, a family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. "Any Further West" follows a mother who is a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In "Tomi," the character Cole returns home from prison, finding herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of her former childhood home. SABRINA AND CORINA is a moving - yet intensely readable - exploration on the universal experiences, by a rising star.
Kali's stories have appeared in several literary journals, and she holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She has been working for over a decade on her craft attending residencies at Yaddo (where she was the 2017 recipient of The LeSage-Fullilove Residency), Hedgebrook, and Hub City Press. For her novel-in-progress, she was awarded the 2017 Laura Hruska Fellowship through Soho Press. She counts among her mentors writers like Mat Johnson, Anne Beattie and Junot Diaz. She is based in Denver, Colorado.
Sabrina and Corina draws from the author's own Southern Colorado heritage and life experiences living all over the Midwest and West of the United States. Kali describes herself and her characters as Chicana - with an origin ancestry of Pueblo Native American. It is eye-opening and fascinating to see these people through her eyes and words: historically, her characters come from a triple-colonized Southwestern U.S. that went from indigenous sovereignty to Spanish rule, then Mexican rule, and eventually the U.S. The subsequent intermingling of the indigenous culture with its European, Filipino, and ultimately Anglo American counterparts has led to a unique and complicated culture in New Mexico and Colorado that is so beautifully rendered in these pages. Race in the Southwest, particularly among Chicanos, is distorted and unclear but retains a deep connection to land and native ancestry. Kali's stories deliberately stay unclear on racial signifiers as a result - she wants her readers to experience the confusion and hybridity that is part of the Chicana experience.
In "Sugar Babies," ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth, but have the tendency to ascend during land disputes. In the title story, a family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. "Any Further West" follows a mother who is a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In "Tomi," the character Cole returns home from prison, finding herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of her former childhood home. SABRINA AND CORINA is a moving - yet intensely readable - exploration on the universal experiences, by a rising star.
Kali's stories have appeared in several literary journals, and she holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She has been working for over a decade on her craft attending residencies at Yaddo (where she was the 2017 recipient of The LeSage-Fullilove Residency), Hedgebrook, and Hub City Press. For her novel-in-progress, she was awarded the 2017 Laura Hruska Fellowship through Soho Press. She counts among her mentors writers like Mat Johnson, Anne Beattie and Junot Diaz. She is based in Denver, Colorado.
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Published 2019-04-07 by One World |
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Published 2019-04-07 by One World |