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Body and Bread
Author(s): Nan Cuba (Author)
- Publisher: Engine Books
- Publication Date: May 7, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 246 pages
- ISBN-10: 1938126068
- ISBN-13: 9781938126062
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Southwest Book Award in Fiction.Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award.
Nan Cuba is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is writer-in-residence at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as Life and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Antioch Review, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, and the Harvard Review, among others. She is co-editor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).Editorial Reviews
Review
"Like Munro, Cuba knows how to immerse us in the eloquent, intelligent, and unpretentious consciousness of a woman whose fidelity is to the unraveling of the many layers of truth that lay hidden, like ancient civilizations, beneath the surface of time." --K.L. Cook, Flyaway: Journal of Writing & Environment.
"'Body and Bread' is a beautiful examination of family dynamics in the wake of suffering, and the ways that grief continues to shape our lives far beyond the death of a loved one." -- Pam Johnston,
San Antonio Express-News"Like every person, every family contains contradictions, oppositions...that's just one truth examined in Nan Cuba's sweeping, carefully observed début novel,
Body and Bread." Beth Castrodale, smallpresspicks.com."Nan Cuba's prose is clear and lyrical; the voice of her narrator strong, intimate, engaging. She spins her tale without fear and achieves the difficult movements in time necessary to tell the story with grace, effortlessness and skill."--Miroslav Penkov, Judge, PEN/Southwest Award in Fiction
