From the National Book Award-nominated author of Dreaming in Cuban, ';breathtakingly beautiful' poems about her troubled, self-destructive brother (The Austin Chronicle). ';[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina Garca tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant lifeThese poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, Garca, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well.'Julia Alvarez, author ofSaving the World ';Garcia's spare language lucidly invokes the brother's insistence on remaining a wreck and the speaker's helplessness to stop him.'The Adirondack Review