Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

A patchwork of incident, memory, letters, dreams and visions provides glimpses of a Cuban family at home and in exile in the '70's and '80's, but Garcia's debut suffers from its fragmented style. From disparate times, places, and (mostly female) points-of- view, Garcia reveals the circumstances and inner lives of various members of the del Pino family. Widowed matriarch Celia--who loved and lost a Spaniard, then married and went crazy--still lives near Havana, fulfilled at last by her active participation in Communist activities and quasi-erotic loyalty to El Lider, Fidel Castro. Daughter Felicia--who talks like a Garcia Lorca poem--suffers episodes of violent insanity and amnesia, then seeks healing through the African-derived religion Santeria. Meanwhile, Felicia's twin daughters repudiate her while her son Ivanito becomes a mama's boy.

The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia

In the buzzing, heat-soaked Zapata swamp in Cuba, naturalists Ignacio and Blanca Aguerro reach the end of their road together--she dead, he saddled by guilt and sorrow. With little to bind them,their daughters eventually lose touch. Sleek, resentful Constancia escapes Cuba to reap America's winking promise while her half-sister Reina, an electrician with Amazonian appetites for sex and adventure, stubbornly stays put

Havana USA : Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 by Maria Cristina Garcia, Maria Christina Garcia Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration and the cultural, economic, and political evolution of the Cuban community in south Florida, where over half of the emigres make their homes.