I Have Forgotten Your Name

When this novel was first published in Rivera's native Dominican Republic, readers were shocked. Expecting a light-hearted romp through Caribbean sunlight and music, they were stunned by the multilayered complexity and poetic power of the novel. A coming-of-age story of two young girls-or is it is two sides of the same girl?-caught between the onslaught of U.S. consumer culture and the evolving Marxist ideologies of the Cuban revolution, the story reflects the loss of any sense of identity as the...