Gabriela Garcia
Vulgar Geniuses
English - July 23, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 29.1 MBBooks Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gabriela Garciaβs debut novel πΆπ πΎππππ πππ πΊπππ chronicles the lives of a Cuban matriarchal family line that spans over five generations bringing their story to present-day Miami, Florida. Garcia masterfully examines the mother/daughter relationship through Carmen and her daughter Jeanette, a recovering drug addict. Jeanette takes in a neighborβs child after witnessing the childβs mother being taken away by ICE.
Gabriela Garcia joins us on the Vulgar Geniuses Podcast to talk about how this novelβs origin story found its way through a series of short stories to become one of 2021βs most celebrated works.