A Falling Star


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Daysy Maria del Pozo and Stella Maris Morales-Quinn both find themselves haunted by their families' complicated and painful Cuban pasts.

Author: Chantel Acevedo
Publisher: Blair
Published: 08/01/2014
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780932112958
ISBN10: 0932112951
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage

About the Author
Chantel Acevedo's novels include Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin's Press), which won the Latino International Book Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year, Song of the Red Cloak, a historical novel for young adults, A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), winner of the Doris Bakwin Award, and National Bronze Medal IPPY Award, and The Distant Marvels, (Europa Editions), one of Booklist's Top Ten Historical Novels of 2015. THE LIVING INFINITE, a novel about the Infanta Eulalia, is forthcoming from Europa Editions in 2017. Her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, North American Review, and Chattahoochee Review, and in chapbook form, among others. Acevedo is currently an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Program of the University of Miami.