Heartland by Ana Simo [in Booklist]
15 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost
Although the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing went to Deepak Unnikrishnan’s dazzling Temporary People (2017), the judges were so enthralled by the “insane and brilliant” Heartland by Cuban-born, New York-domiciled lesbian activist Simo that it, too, went to press, enabling the 73-year-old...