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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.

“Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.”—Sandra Cisneros

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. 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 lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.

In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows 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,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.

Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal

“Sabrina & Corina isn’t just good, it’s masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth.”—Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

“[A] powerhouse debut . . . stylistically superb, with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters, Sabrina & Corina introduces an impressive new talent to American letters.”—Rigoberto González, NBC News

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052551130X
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“Fierce and essential stories . . . Feminine agency, legacy and kinship . . . govern the hearts of every character in this book.”—The New York Times

“A terrific collection of stories—fiercely and beautifully made.”—Joy Williams

“Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart, believable in everything they said and did. How tragic that American letters hasn’t met these women of the West before, women who were here before America was America. And how tragic that these working-class women haven’t seen themselves in the pages of American lit before. Thank you for honoring their lives, Kali. I welcome them and you.”—Sandra Cisneros

“In the eleven stories of Sabrina & Corina, Fajardo-Anstine writes a love letter to the Chicanas of her homeland—women as unbreakable as the mountains that run through Colorado and as resilient as the arid deserts that surround it. . . . In her fierce, bold stories, these women—and she—are seen, and heard, and made known; the collection is both a product of pain and a celebration of survival. . . . Like the woman on Sabrina & Corina’s cover, the hearts of these characters are exposed but intact. Fajardo-Anstine's heart is there on the page, too, beating with the blood of her ancestors.”—Bustle

“Sabrina & Corina summons a world we hardly recognize, but should. . . . Fajardo-Anstine can make a story smell of sickness. She can make legend of malediction. Conjuring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and unfurling the Denver skyline, there is no limit to what Fajardo-Anstine can manifest on paper and, subsequently, in our dreams. Yet, what is most admirable is the courage of her hand. She’s unafraid to delve into areas of race, feminism, queerness, and class. She interrogates whiteness, and its associations like passing and colorism, prodding unapologetically.”—Electric Literature

“[A] beautiful collection.” —HelloGiggles

“[An] engrossing collection of tales . . . Stories that bravely reinvent the Wild West narrative by lifting up Latinx women and portraying callused hand cowboys not as heroes, but as villains and perpetrators of violence.”—Latino Book Review

“You will clutch your heart reading Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection. Her stories are that heartbreaking, each one like a gift from a small child, offered with earnest, luminous eyes, innocence itself, impossible to reject. . . . Go find yourself a copy of this thrilling, touching, beautiful book.”—New York Journal of Books

“In [Sabrina & Corina] we find a different narrative of the West. These are women who inhabit a space between the Indigenous and the Latinx; they are fierce [and] powerful in their own way.”—Brooklyn Rail

“Kali Fajardo-Anstine writes about hard truths in women’s lives so knowingly, and with such a deft touch, I felt hyper-alert, as well as implicated and imperiled. The book is about belief, coping, yearning, and proceeding in spite of adversity (that is, the times we stay alive). The final act of the first story tells us everything we need to know about what territory we’ll be entering: In these achingly convincing stories, the writer is writing delicately, symbolically, about mortality itself.”—Ann Beattie

About the Author

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, The Story Prize, and winner of an American Book Award. She is the 2021 recipient of the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been honored with the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts and the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award. She has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, The American Scholar, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Tin House. Fajardo-Anstine earned her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. She is the 2022/2023 Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.

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Chapter 1

Sugar Babies

Though the southern Colorado soil was normally hard and cakey, it had snowed and then rained an unusual amount that spring. Some of the boys in my eighth-grade class decided it was the perfect ground for playing army. They borrowed shovels and picks from their fathers’ sheds, placing the tools on their bicycle handlebars and riding out to the western edge of our town, Saguarita, a place where the land with its silken fibers of swaying grass resembled a sleeping woman with her face pressed firmly to the pillow, a golden blonde by day, a raven-haired beauty by night.

The first boy to hit bone was Robbie Martinez. He did so with the blunt edge of a rusted shovel. Out of the recently drenched earth, he lifted a piece of brittle faded whiteness and tossed it downwind like nothing more than a scrap of paper. “Look,” he said, kneeling as if he was praying. “Everybody come look.”

The other boys gathered around. There in the ground lay broken pieces of bowls with black zigzagging designs. Next to those broken bowls were human teeth, scattered like dried kernels of yellow corn. Above them the sun had begun to fade behind the tallest peak of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The sky was pale and bleak, like the bloated belly of a lizard passing above.

“Don’t touch it,” Robbie said. “None of it. We need to tell somebody.”

And tell they did. The entire town. Everyone, it seemed, was a witness.

Days after their discovery, our final eighth-grade project was announced. We gathered in the gym for an assembly. The teachers brought together the boys from technical education class and the girls from home economics. We sat Indian style in ten rows beneath dangling ropes and resting basketball hoops. The room smelled like a tennis ball dipped in old socks and the cement walls were padded in purple vinyl—supposedly to minimize dodgeball injuries. I thought it looked like a loony bin.

Mrs. Sharply, a bug-eyed woman with a neck like a giraffe’s but a torso like a rhino’s, stood before us on a wooden box. “For the remaining two weeks of your junior high career,” she said, “you will care for another life.” She then reached behind her into a paper grocery bag, revealing a sack of C & H pure cane sugar. “Sugar babies. We will be raising our very own sugar babies.”

Older kids had gossiped about notorious school projects. We had heard stories of piglet dissections, the infamous “growing and changing” unit, rocket launches with carbon dioxide canisters, and a cow’s lung blackened and doused in cigarette smoke, but no one had warned us about this.

“Sugar babies are a lot of responsibility,” Mrs. Sharply said as she stepped down from her box and paced with the sugar sack. She explained we were to be graded on skills like feeding, bonding, budgeting, and more. She then passed around diaper directions.

“We do it all alone?” It was Solana Segura. She was behind me, her perpetual whimper causing every sentence to end like a little howl. “Like single moms and stuff?”

Somewhere, down the rows, a boy croaked, “But the DNA shows I am not the father.”

We chirped with laughter until Mrs. Sharply held up two fingers, signaling silence. “Of course not. You’ll be in committed partnerships. We’re drawing names.”

A teacher’s aide in Payless flats scurried like a magician’s assistant toward Mrs. Sharply. She carried two Folgers cans decorated in pink and blue glitter. Mrs. Sharply set down her sugar, taking the cans from the aide and giving each a good shake. From the pink can, the first name she pulled was Mimi Yazzie, who stood and slinked forward, burying her face into her arms as Mrs. Sharply called out her partner, Mike Ramos. This cycle of humiliation lasted for several more rounds before I was partnered with Roberto Martinez, the bone boy.

After school, Robbie and I sat outside on the swings. He was a scrawny kid with frequently chapped lips and a light dusting of freckles across his low nose. He played soccer and always wore a beat-up blue windbreaker and knockoff Adidas sneakers, with four stripes instead of three. The sugar baby was planted snug in his lap, balanced ever so gently between his two stick-arms. His dark eyes were so big and wide they resembled two brown pigeon eggs and he spoke with a quavering, squeaky voice. “They said we have to name it. Do you want to pick it out, Sierra?”

“No, you name it.” I swung up. “And you take it home tonight.” I swung down. “I’ll watch it tomorrow, but only if I have to.”

“That’s cool,” he said. “What about Miranda? That’s my grandma’s name.”

“Whatever,” I sighed, leaning back on the swing. “Name it after your grandmother. Name it after your entire family. I don’t care.” I pumped until the rusted chain pulled taut. Then I jumped, landing in the mushy gravel with both feet. I took off for home.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition (April 7, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 052551130X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525511304
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 820L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.016 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.17 x 0.6 x 8 inches

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Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, The Story Prize, and winner of an American Book Award. She is the 2021 recipient of the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been honored with the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts and the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award. She has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, The American Scholar, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Tin House. Fajardo-Anstine earned her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. She is the 2022/2023 Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.

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I LOVED THIS BOOK!

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“Sometimes a person’s unhappiness can make them forget they are a part of something bigger, something like a family, a people, even a tribe.” Sabrina & Karina

Fajardo-Anstine is a magnificent and wondrous composer, and her stories were music to my ears. I hope she is working on her next book. Also, can we stop and goo-goo-gaga over the cover? Isn’t it just incredible? I fell head over heels in love with the stunning cover. 😍 I mean guao (wow). The stories were about Latina women of indigenous descent from all walks of life and with a plethora of calamities. Most of the stories featured some melancholy, but with Fajardo-Anstine’s touch, the women’s tragedies were humane and perceivable. Two stories which stood out to me were Sabrina & Corina, cousins raised together who end up on drastically different paths. In addition, the story Remedies because when I was in the second grade, there was a lice epidemic at school and I became one of its unlucky hosts. My lice dilemma became legendary in my family. My mom tried all kinds of over the counter products, but the lice refused to hit the road! My mom’s pride and joy was my hair and cutting it was simply never an option! Incredibly not one thing worked until she prepared a natural remedy (and a few prayers). I highly recommend this fantastic collection even if you’re not into short stories. The characters and stories will stay with you long after you’re done reading this gem.

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Absolutely spectacular!

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This collection of stories is a tremendous accomplishment. Effortlessly told yet layered in subtle complexity, each story is an intersectional discussion touching on race, gender, class, generations, culture, history... I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least, and I can't wait to read more following this, Kali's debut. It has been a long time since I found myself so completely lost in the stories that seemed so lifelike I simply can't believe they're not real.

I actually bought several more copies to give to friends and put in my Free Little Library. I sincerely hope that this gem - a masterpiece and one of the best things I've read this year - gets its due attention and accolades as the year goes on. Simply fantastic and highly recommended.

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Erin

Read it in small pieces

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019

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When I first saw the number of pages in the book, I thought it would be a light, easy read. Wrong. Each short story was so heavy that I found myself reading one story a day. Some of them I loved, while others fell short. I thought the beginning half of the stories were the best ones, with each story being a little less interesting than the one before it. Overall, I liked it and found it very eye-opening.

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I keep having to buy copies because I keep giving it to friends

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I could not put this book down and managed read it in 12 hours. The characters and stories were so enthralling, I felt so much for everyone. Maybe have some tissues handy. What I especially loved, as a Denverite, was how I knew all the neighborhoods and could see everything so clearly. This book is pure Denver/Colorado & reflects the women here perfectly, both their strengths and their struggles. I've bought this book for myself and 2 others so far, and will likely keep gifting it to more friends, because it is a must read.

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A must-read! Haunting and gorgeous love letter to women of the American SW

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2019

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I really did not know how much I was going to love this book. The resilience of women, the ability to endure of indigenous people, and the power of family come through so wonderfully in this book. I can't wait to read future books by the author. I hope someone makes a movie based on these stories one day, the visuals in my head are so strong. Just a beautiful, important piece of work.

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BreAnna

Every story was magnificent!

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2020

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This book totally blew me away! This feels like the kind of short story collection I could pick up a million times and still notice new details. It is hauntingly beautiful and the characters seem so real you could almost reach out and touch them. It focuses on Latinx women of Indigenous descent in the American west and does a wonderful job illustrating the complexity of their lives.

I highly recommend this one! The author says in her acknowledgments that this took her a decade to write and you can feel the care she put into it. Every word was chosen with intention.

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019

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Sabrina & Corina is a beautiful, moving collection of short stories about the lives of indigenous Latina women in Colorado. Kali Fajardo-Anstine does such a gorgeous job of making every story come completely alive. I read the entire book in one day because I couldn’t leave her characters, who felt completely real to me. I can’t wait to read what she writes next!

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Really Good Read.....

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One of my favorite short story collections I've read this year. The stories are all diverse, as each character is their own. My favorite in this collection is Tomi. Although, Julian Plaza nearly made me break down. Trigger warning for those whom have lost someone to breast cancer.

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Reviewed in India on October 23, 2019

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This book arrived at 8 in the morning and it is absolutely beautiful it just sets my morning right. Thank you.

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アメリカ・コロラド州のデンバー界隈に、ヒスパニック系 Chicano (Chicana ) のコミュニティがある。主にメキシコ系アメリカ人たちが暮らす地域である。本書は移民の国アメリカの一断面を切りとったものと言えよう。著者もデンバー生まれのチカーナ。本書が初出版ということだが、いくつかの賞を受賞し、全米図書賞最終候補作ともなって、称賛されている。

11篇の短篇が収められている。主に若い女性、少女、その母親や祖母などの生活が中心に描かれている。母娘、姉妹、従姉妹、祖母と孫娘、兄と妹、叔母と甥の少年、友だち。11篇に11通りの物語が紡がれていて、いずれの中でも彼女たちなりにそれぞれの人生と格闘するようすが描かれる。それらは時には痛ましいが、時には温かな触れ合いとなって胸に迫ってくる。男たち(父親や夫、ボーイフレンド)は彼女たちを見捨てたり、ときには暴力をふるったりもする。
移民社会にあって、いたるところに存在する白人との格差、想いのすれちがい、生まれ育った地が白人たちに収奪されていくなかでの郷愁、そんな中でも人と人とのあいだに流れる温かな情感。味わい深かかった。

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