San Andres rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before. For Victoria - whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years far away - the sun-burned tourists and sewage blooms, sudden storms, and 'thinking rundowns' where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andres.
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Cristina Bendek is a Colombian writer. She was born on the island of San Andrés off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and lived in Bogota and Mexico City. She published her acclaimed debut novel Salt Crystals in 2018.2022
Adult Fiction
Modern Fiction and Literary Fiction