Award Name Lambda Literary Awards Award category Lesbian Fiction Description Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture.
Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny.
She understands perfectly how the romance of exile--from a homeland as well as from.
Cleis Press Memory mambo: big sur pioneers, paperback/achy obejas
