THE AGÜERO SISTERS
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"Superb... García seductively draws us in and refuses to let go." --Newsweek
"Something fresh, rare, and wonderful... García contrasts not only the two sisters, but also their cultures." --The Boston Sunday Globe
"Haunting... Powerfully imagined." --The New York Times
"Cristina García neatly sidesteps the curse of the much-feted first novel...with the assured The Agüero Sisters, a vibrant tale of a repressed Manhattan cosmetics saleswomen and her sexy, Havana-based sister that blends family, culture, and García's shapely prose into a rich, velvety world one is loath to leave." --Elle
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.
Told in the stirring voices of their parents, their daughters, and themselves, The Agüero Sisters is a mesmerizing story about the power of myth to mask, transform, and, finally, reveal the truth -- as two women move toward an uncertain, long-awaited reunion.