Revolution Sunday

The young Cuban writer featured in Wendy Guerra’s latest novel veers from despair to elation to paranoia— “often rightfully,” said Laura Moretz in Ploughshares. Cleo, a poet whose parents recently died in a suspicious accident, comes under constant government surveillance after she wins a prestigious international prize. When unannounced searches and surprising betrayals follow in Guerra’s “riveting fever dream of a novel,” the reader—like the increasingly isolated Cleo—“barely has a chance to breathe.”