"Darkly hilarious, García braids . . . parallel stories with consummate ease. With a fine balance of wry absurdity and existential poignancy, García builds not just a tale of the end of days but a snapshot of the past impact and future reverberations of Cuba's revolution—a theme more fascinating than ever as the once-isolated island nation opens itself to the world." —Elle magazine [on King of Cuba]

“Pitch-perfect . . . García is still drawn to describe the richness and variety of the immigrant experience . . . [But] she also fixes her attention on the fundamentally human desire to make sense of the world, to impose order on the chaos of nature and to rationalize one’s mysterious place within it.” —Chicago Tribune [on A Handbook to Luck]

“A work that possesses the intimacy of a Chekhov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Though one is dazzled by the book’s small fireworks of imagery, though one stops to marvel at some of the fantastic events that bloom on its pages, the reader is never distracted from the gripping story of its extraordinary heroines and the passions that bind and separate them from one another and the country of their birth . . . [García] is blessed with a poet’s ear for language, a historian’s fascination with the past, and a musician’s intuitive understanding of the ebb and flow of emotion.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times [on Dreaming in Cuban]