Faraway World

Across ten stories set throughout the Americas, this collection follows people pulled between the places they have left and the places they have landed. Two Colombian expatriates meet by chance on a rainy New York street, each carrying a difficult past. In Cuba, a woman learns that her dead brother's bones have been stolen as the love of her life returns from Ecuador for a single night. A cash-strapped couple in Miami chases a scheme that pushes them toward irreversible consequences. Moving between Colombia, Cuba, New York, and Miami, the stories trace the Latin American diaspora and the strange, durable attachments people keep to homelands they barely know or have not seen in years. Throughout, the characters reckon with the compromises love demands, the lies they tell themselves and others, and the slow accumulation of grief, guilt, and longing. Written with restraint and precision, the collection studies migration not as a single event but as a condition that reshapes desire, loyalty, and belonging. The cost of leaving and the cost of staying weigh equally here, and tenderness arrives alongside betrayal. Together the stories build a portrait of ordinary people negotiating displacement, memory, and the difficult business of making a life somewhere new.