Dahlma Llanos Figueroa
My Bookshelf
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Publications:
Women's Work: The Short Stories (2010) "Maggie" (short story)
Wordsetc (Sept. 2009) "Impressions of Barcelona" (essay)
Wordsetc (Aug. 2008) "Hair Inspection" "Why I Write" (essay)
Narrative Magazine (2007) "Cuban Portraits" (non-fiction)
Growing Up Girl (2005) "Hair Inspection" (non-fiction)
Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul (2005) "The Clinic & "The Healing"
Rosebud (2005) "Cuban Snapshots" (non-fiction)
Acts of Emancipation: An Anthology of Teacher Writings (2005) "Mapping" (short story)
Lost and Found: An Anthology of Teacher's Writings (2003) "Papichulo" (short story)
The Writer's Voice Journal (2000) "Mapping" (short story)
Shooting Star Review (1995) "Passing On" (novel excerpt)


Books That Have Stayed With Me:
Evening by Susan Minot
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Kite Runner by Kaled Hosseini
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
10,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz


Books Waiting to Be Read:
Fiction
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruíz Zafón
The Book of Night Women by Marlong James
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Known World by Edward Jones
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Torturer's Wife by Thomas Glave

Non-Fiction
Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 by Eileen J. Suárez Finlay
Sugar, Slavery and Freedom in 19th Century Puerto Rico by Luis A. Figueroa


Recommended Sites:

The Messages Project

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