Cristina García is one of several late-twentieth-century Cuban American writers whose work represents the experiences and issues of a generation of Cuban-born children who immigrated with their families to the United States after the Cuban Revolution in the early 1960s. Her novels contribute to a body of writing that has been considered the literary "coming of age" for Cuban American literature. García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), received widespread acclaim and has exerted a tremendous influence on the ways that American readers understand the complexity of the Cuban American immigrant and exile experience. Reviewers from publications such as Time and Publishers Weekly praised the novel as a literary tour de force for its ability to capture the experience of "living between two cultures." For García, Dreaming in Cuban established her writing career and marked her entry into the American multicultural literary scene...