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Yolanda Gallardo is a poet, playwright, and novelist from the Bronx in New York to parents of Cuban and Venezuelan/Puerto Rican heritage. Her play, Everybody Knows My Business, has been performed in Puerto Rico and optioned for Off Broadway. She’s the author of a digital poetry collection, The Fragile Thread (Word Wrangler Press), and her poems have been published in journals including Long Shot Magazine and Chiricú Journal.
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The Glass Eye is Gallardo’s debut novel, which brings a Latinx Bronx community to vivid life in this story full of local customs and manners, a culture that is “close to home” in her case. She uses her own personal experiences as a Latina living in the Bronx to write this charming novel.
What the critics have said:
“A good-natured domestic comedy set amid the Puerto Rican community in the Bronx. Everyone knows everyone, and there is a story about everyone; every relationship has a history, and Gallardo playfully recounts them all. There is no shortage of action here—the novel is vibrating with birth and death and tragedy…Charming.”—Kirkus Reviews
