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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Call Me Cassandra

Call Me Cassandra

Gala, Marcial
Kushner, Anna

Hardcover

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 0374602018
ISBN13: 9780374602017
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
Published: Jan 11 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Dazzling. --Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas. --Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her

Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra.

Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.

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