Nan Cuba received her MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center (www.geminiink.org), was twice the runner-up for the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and received a Fundaci�n Valparaiso Residency Grant in Moj�car, Spain. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as LIFE and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose (runner-up for the journal's fiction award), Bloomsbury Review, and Harvard Review, among others. She is coeditor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).
"15 Riveting Reads to Pick Up in May 2013"
--O, The Oprah Magazine "Cuba's piercing coming-of-age saga
vibrates with youthful yearnings."
--Carol Haggas, Booklist "Summer Books: 15 New Releases to Put on
Your Reading List"
--HuffPost Books "Body and Bread is a beautiful examination of
family dynamics in the wake of suffering, and the ways that grief
continues to shape our lives far beyond the death of a loved
one...a stunning debut novel." --Pam Johnston, San Antonio
Express-News "The quintessential Texas novel for the twenty-first
century."
--Catherine Kasper, Texas Books in Review "Beautifully written,
hauntingly true, expertly spanning multiple cultures, time periods
and philosophies, Body and Bread is nothing short of a
tour-de-force. You will be transported. You will be
transformed."
--David Bowles, The Monitor (South Texas) "Body and Bread is a
complex tapestry of lives, present and past, that come together to
tell one woman's life. In viewing her life, we are given a bigger
story reaching backwards and forward. I learned much about history
reading this book. Cuba knows what the wise know; all our lives are
interconnected into one common cloth. Here is bread for the spirit
written from the heart." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on
Mango Street "This remarkable novel is an account of a loss that
transforms, and of the lives of those nearest its narrator as she
carries them with her through the years. To read this beautiful and
generous narrative, its passionately exact prose, is to experience
the widening of its scope as it makes room for us all in its pages
as a chronicle of the past histories that unfold for each of us,
within our continuously present selves." --Chuck Wachtel, author of
The Gates "Nan Cuba is one of those essential writers for whom
character and landscape are inextricably intertwined. Sarah Pelton
and her difficult family couldn't live anywhere but Texas and Cuba
tells their many layered story with dazzling intelligence and a
rare understanding of the forces of self-destruction. A compelling
debut." --Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy "In
Body and Bread, Nan Cuba has written a wonderful novel packed with
superbly impossible characters who skirmish over the great
questions of what is passed on and what can ever be left behind.
The blood and guts of family life--its quixotic warfare and abiding
love--spill out of this remarkable story. A rich and memorable
book." --Joan Silber, author of Fools "With its careful,
heart-wrenching accumulation of the data of grief, BODY AND BREAD
demonstrates how we demean life--our own, and the foreshortened
lives of those we grieve--by living a half-life, inconsolable.
Sarah Pelton goes so far out of her way to avoid the recent past
that she propels herself into an ancient culture whose rituals help
her excavate the absence with which she has supplanted memory and
hope. With its luminous account of a just-vanished family history,
its evocation of tragedy's fragile aftermath, this novel reminds us
that surviving is the hardest work of all. We dismiss, dismiss, and
then--with a flicker of grace and fledgling gratitude--embrace our
imperfect and evanescent second chances." --Debra Monroe, author of
On the Outskirts of Normal
"15 Riveting Reads to Pick Up in May 2013"
--O, The Oprah Magazine "Cuba's piercing coming-of-age saga
vibrates with youthful yearnings."
--Carol Haggas, Booklist "Summer Books: 15 New Releases to Put on
Your Reading List"
--HuffPost Books "Body and Bread is a beautiful examination of
family dynamics in the wake of suffering, and the ways that grief
continues to shape our lives far beyond the death of a loved
one...a stunning debut novel." --Pam Johnston, San Antonio
Express-News "The quintessential Texas novel for the twenty-first
century."
--Catherine Kasper, Texas Books in Review "Beautifully written,
hauntingly true, expertly spanning multiple cultures, time periods
and philosophies, Body and Bread is nothing short of a
tour-de-force. You will be transported. You will be
transformed."
--David Bowles, The Monitor (South Texas) "Body and Bread is a
complex tapestry of lives, present and past, that come together to
tell one woman's life. In viewing her life, we are given a bigger
story reaching backwards and forward. I learned much about history
reading this book. Cuba knows what the wise know; all our lives are
interconnected into one common cloth. Here is bread for the spirit
written from the heart." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on
Mango Street "This remarkable novel is an account of a loss that
transforms, and of the lives of those nearest its narrator as she
carries them with her through the years. To read this beautiful and
generous narrative, its passionately exact prose, is to experience
the widening of its scope as it makes room for us all in its pages
as a chronicle of the past histories that unfold for each of us,
within our continuously present selves." --Chuck Wachtel, author of
The Gates "Nan Cuba is one of those essential writers for whom
character and landscape are inextricably intertwined. Sarah Pelton
and her difficult family couldn't live anywhere but Texas and Cuba
tells their many layered story with dazzling intelligence and a
rare understanding of the forces of self-destruction. A compelling
debut." --Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy "In
Body and Bread, Nan Cuba has written a wonderful novel packed with
superbly impossible characters who skirmish over the great
questions of what is passed on and what can ever be left behind.
The blood and guts of family life--its quixotic warfare and abiding
love--spill out of this remarkable story. A rich and memorable
book." --Joan Silber, author of Fools "With its careful,
heart-wrenching accumulation of the data of grief, BODY AND BREAD
demonstrates how we demean life--our own, and the foreshortened
lives of those we grieve--by living a half-life, inconsolable.
Sarah Pelton goes so far out of her way to avoid the recent past
that she propels herself into an ancient culture whose rituals help
her excavate the absence with which she has supplanted memory and
hope. With its luminous account of a just-vanished family history,
its evocation of tragedy's fragile aftermath, this novel reminds us
that surviving is the hardest work of all. We dismiss, dismiss, and
then--with a flicker of grace and fledgling gratitude--embrace our
imperfect and evanescent second chances." --Debra Monroe, author of
On the Outskirts of Normal
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