Memory and Oblivion

Paloma Sánchez-Garnica was born in Madrid. A history and law graduate, she is the author of The Great Mystery, The Eastern Breeze, The Soul of Stone, and The Three Wounds. Memory and Oblivion, winner of Spain’s Fernando Lara de Novela Prize, is the author’s first book to be translated into English. Visit her at www.palomasanchez-garnica.com. Achy Obejas is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, novelist, and poet. The author of Ruins, Memory Mambo, Days of Awe, and the bestselling poetry chapbook This Is What Happened in Our Other Life, Obejas is also the editor of Akashic’s critically acclaimed crime-fiction anthology Havana Noir and the translator (into Spanish) of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Currently she is the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana and continues to spend extended time there.

Paloma Sánchez-Garnica was born in Madrid. A history and law graduate, she is the author of The Great Mystery, The Eastern Breeze, The Soul of Stone, and The Three Wounds. Memory and Oblivion, winner of Spain’s Fernando Lara de Novela Prize, is the author’s first book to be translated into English. Visit her at www.palomasanchez-garnica.com. Achy Obejas is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, novelist, and poet. The author of Ruins, Memory Mambo, Days of Awe, and the bestselling poetry chapbook This Is What Happened in Our Other Life, Obejas is also the editor of Akashic’s critically acclaimed crime-fiction anthology Havana Noir and the translator (into Spanish) of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Currently she is the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana and continues to spend extended time there.