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A powerful set of reflections on identity and family history. --Kirkus Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins--and how the act of remembering is also an act of love. --Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores--with confidence and an abiding uncertainty--his own identity as a person made up of differences. --Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things--a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting--but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation. --Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread

Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins--and how the act of remembering is also an act of love. --Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores--with confidence and an abiding uncertainty--his own identity as a person made up of differences. --Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things--a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting--but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation. --Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread

"""A powerful set of reflections on identity and family history."" --Kirkus ""Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins--and how the act of remembering is also an act of love."" --Rigoberto González, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood ""Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores--with confidence and an abiding uncertainty--his own identity as a person made up of differences."" --Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington ""Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things--a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting--but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation."" --Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread"

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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams and Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life. He teaches in the MFA programs at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Colorado State University.

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