In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd BOTY_2025 Are you still holding on

Are you still holding on to past sins

and Benny’s

but it must be collected and refined

The fifth volume in the New York Times best-selling Cradle series

and wild asparagus

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd BOTY_2025 Are you still holding onPushcart Prize winner Ana Menendez landed firmly in the literary landscape last year with the hardcover publication of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Reviewers overwhelmingly agree that she is an important new voice in American fiction: hers is "a bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), a tour de force that is "poignant and varied, emotionally vivid and hauntingly melancholy" (San