A review by corinnekeener
Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

5.0

Sabrina & Corina is a really beautifully crafted short story collection about Indigenous Latina women living in and around Denver. Each story had an acute sense of sadness and loss, many of them dealt with violence against women, and abandonment. These are necessarily dark themes, but the heart of most of the stories was warm and deeply human. Mothers, grandmothers and daughters, sisters, cousins, and in my favorite story, Tomi, an aunt and her nephew search for connection to one another despite how awkward that can be, and despite sometimes hurting one another. It has been a long, long time since a book has made me cry, and these are short stories so I didn't even have hundreds of pages to get to know any one character. Fajardo-Anstine has a gift for crafting characters I was able to connect to and feel deeply about instantly.