The Aguero Sisters

When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original."  Now, with The Agüero Sisters, García gives us her widely anticipated new novel. 

"This is no paint-by-numbers allegory. Garcia's characters are three-dimensional and her novel is filled with rich and compelling detail."  -  San Francisco Chronicle

Reina and Constancia Agüero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina - tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual - -still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la revolución, she now basks in the glow of her many admiring suitors, believing only in what she can grasp with her five senses. The pale and very petite Constancia lives in the United States, a beauty expert who sees miracles and portents wherever she looks. After she and her husband retire to Miami, she becomes haunted by the memory of her parents and the unexplained death of her beloved mother so long ago.

"Five years after her debut, the former journalist has made good on her early promise with a superb second novel, The Agüero Sisters... With sensual prose and a plot that captures the angst of the Cuban diaspora... Garcia seductively draws us in and refuses to let go."  -  The Times UK

Told in the stirring voices of their parents, their daughters, and themselves, The Agüero Sisters is large, vibrant, and resonant with image and emotion, and tells a mesmerizing story about the power of family myth to mask, transform, and, finally, reveal the truth.  - as two women move toward an uncertain, long-awaited reunion.