In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story began in a fractured household. She makes this revelation in “Add a Little Salt,” the tenth essay in the collection. And perhaps it is the fractured household that compels her to tell her story in fifteen interlocking narratives. From the brokenness of family and the ruptured female body, she forges literary structure.
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