Crisscrossed with exotic shadows, memories of romance and displacement, Ana Menéndez’s new novel, The Last War, is a seductive meditation.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
“Menéndez’s descriptions of the city are haunting and shadowy. . . . A precise and subtle book, full of finely realized flashbacks, the narrator’s memories of a marriage and detailed descriptions of Istanbul and of the experience of adjusting to another home, another culture.” — Miami Herald
“[A] potent literary novel . . . A deft portrait of an estranged couple whose pain is veiled by the fog of war.” — People
“[An] impressionistic and introspective tale . . . Menéndez offers astute and perceptive commentary on both the hidden and obvious effects of war and its aftermath.” — Booklist
“Poetic, atmospheric, and introspective . . . A quietly piercing cultural and philosophical think-piece, comparable in its low-key, allusive moodiness to a European art-house movie.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Menendez shows with unblinking honesty in her self-assured second novel The Last War how in conflict and its aftermath journalists can find or lose themselves. . . . Mendendez’s deep wisdom about people and their relationships is the payoff that always makes this insightful author worth reading.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“An exquisitely crafted work . . . A novel, lyrically written, that feels strikingly real and heartfelt, a narrative by a woman destroying herself with imagination and doubt.” — Denver Post
“Menendez is a skilled novelist - even admirers of her acclaimed short story collection, In Cuba I was a German Shepherd or her earlier novel, Loving Che, will be impressed with the deepening maturity of her writing. . . . [A] fully convincing psychological portrait.” — South Florida Sun Sentinel
“Ana Menendez’s The Last War offers us a moving and probing portrait of lovers and media warriors in this poignant and touching novel of crumbling friendships and marriages—betrayals, large and small—in a dicey and dangerous world.” — Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Brother, I'm Dying
Praise for IN CUBA I WAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD: “A raucous, heartfelt debut...Deft, talented and hilarious....” — Junot Diaz
Praise for IN CUBA I WAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD: “Powerful... A bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Praise for IN CUBA I WAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD: “Menendez taps into [a] wellspring of broken promises and unfulfilled desires and gives us a ... peek at ... the Cuban-American experience.” — Miami Herald
Praise for LOVING CHE: “[Loving Che] puts [Menendez] in the company of other Latino writers such as Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros.” — Vanity Fair
Praise for LOVING CHE: “A tart fable about history and identity that is equal parts detective story, travelogue and fever dream...Inventive and hypnotic...[An] evanescent pas de deux.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Powerful. . . . A bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times on In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
“Menendez taps into [a] wellspring of broken promises and unfulfilled desires and gives us a . . . peek at . . . the Cuban-American experience.” — Miami Herald on In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
“A tart fable about history and identity that is equal parts detective story, travelogue and fever dream. . . . Inventive and hypnotic. . . . [An] evanescent pas de deux.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review on Loving Che
“[Loving Che] puts [Menendez] in the company of other Latino writers such as Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros.” — Vanity Fair on Loving Che
“[The Last War] speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity—as a woman and a writer. . . . A character study of those who have found their purpose in bearing witness to bloodshed.” — New York Times Book Review
