2009.058.058

The author Yanitzia Canetti owns Brickhouse Publishing in Lawrence and was named one of the 25 most influential Hispanic women in the United States in 2011 by People en Espanol.

Summary found online: On an island in the Caribbean (could it be Cuba?) live our daily evils. Fear, luxury, sins, confessions are on one side; lovers, prostitutes, homosexuals, victims, and the victimized are on the other. Inside the confessional, only a priest, a woman, and God know what goes on. Then loneliness, death, another country...
This is a book in which eroticism reaches its highest level of expression, a book of inconfessable confessions that questions sin and draws a shaky line between good and evil, as a priest who is much too young listens to a woman who is much too scared. It is a book of orgies and seductions, where a woman explores, through the body, the labyrinths of the soul, and where prostitutes, crooks, murderers, transvestites, innocents, homosexuals, and lovers join in a sometimes frenzied, sometimes tender dance.

"Al otro lado" is a book unanimously celebrated by critics. Through impeccable prose, the protagonist lives a strange and intense relationship with her confessor. It all takes place in a ghostly church that bleeds or sheds tears, in which Christians and non-believers occupy the same space. "Al otro lado" is a temple of sensations: games of words, games of the flesh, games of life and death. This is, without doubt, one of the most revealing books of contemporary Hispanic literature.
edition: 1st ed.