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The Tilting House
Ivonne’s new novel, The Tilting House, tells the story of an adolescent girl, Yuri Vilar, who lives in Havana during the country’s worst economic crisis. In 1993, Yuri meets Mariela, a Cuban American artist returning to the island for the first time. Mariela claims to be Yuri’s sister, separated all these years due to family and political upheavals. Through Yuri’s fraught relationship with Mariela (in Havana, in NYC, in Miami, and back in Havana when Yuri briefly returns alone in 2015), the novel explores the losses and gains incurred in the process of migration, and the complexities of grief, identity, betrayal, nationhood, and family ties.
Coming July 2025
About Ivonne
Ivonne Lamazares was born in Havana, and at the age of thirteen, left Cuba and settled in Miami, Florida. Her first novel, The Sugar Island (Houghton Mifflin), was translated to seven languages. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Latina Magazine, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NEA and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. She lives in Miami with her husband, poet Steve Kronen, and teaches writing at Miami Dade College.