Febres, Mayra Santos

Julián Castrodad is a journalist and aspiring writer who suddenly finds himself unemployed...

Puerto Rican Santos-Febres is a well-known, award-winning author and academic whose stories and novels have been translated into English and several other languages...

Arguably the most famous novel by 2009 Guggenheim fellow Santos-Febres, this is the story of Sirena ("mermaid") Selena, a teenage Puerto Rican transvestite with an enchanting voice and a complicated past, who flies to the Dominican Republic with his/her manager, Martha Divine, an older and wiser cross-dresser, in an attempt to find success as a hotel singer...