Publisher Description
This dazzling debut collection, a meditation on belonging, spans a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond.
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“McCauley’s explosive debut collection crackles with moments of honesty, upheaval, and longing among families…Each story is a treasure.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of Scar On/Scar Off and When Trying to Return Home. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio, CantoMundo and the Knight Foundation, as well as awards from Best of the Net, Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Academy of American Poets, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. She has been published in Vassar Review, Columbia Journal, Los Angeles Review, and Passages North, among other places.