Havana Noir, edited by Achy Obejas

Havana Noir is an anthology of short stories — grim, bleak, escapist, violent, sexually charged — set in the collection’s namesake city. The compiled stories are organized into four parts — I: Sleepless in Havana, II: Escape to Nowhere, III: Sudden Rage, IV: Drowning in Silence. Beside the title of each of the short stories is the name of the neighborhood in which the protagonists live, breathe, screw, die, kill and dream — Chinatown, Centro Habana, Alamar, Malecón…” Read the review at Bookslut.