Until We're Fish

Awarded the Gold Medal for Best Historical Fiction in the 2021 International Latino Book Awards and the Nautilus Book Award for Fiction, and nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Book Award for Debut Novels.

Past winners of the International Latino Book Award include Isabel Allende, Rudolfo Anaya, Oscar Hijuelos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Pablo Neruda.
Nautilus Awards honor Better Books for a Better World, and the core mission of the Nautilus Awards is to celebrate and honor books that support positive social change, social justice, conscious living and spiritual growth.

Other distinguished Nautilus Award winners include Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Brown Taylor, Anne Lamott, Louise Erdrich, Desmond Tutu and Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Andrew Weil, and Malala Yousafzai.
Historically vibrant and sadly exquisite,  Until We're Fish  renders a poetic and cinematic view of Cuba through the lens of  loves --familial love, romantic love, patriotic love--and their complex intersections, all beautifully and uniquely told through this compelling story  centered on lives that make history come alive.    RICHARD BLANCO, Presidential Inaugural Poet,  author of  How to Love a Country

An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Until We're Fish  blends the romance, violence, mood, and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man's hopeless and heroic first love. With the truth of experience and the lyricism of poetry, Rodríguez Drissi constructs an exquisite, gossamer tale of revolution and hearts set adrift. A Don Quixote for our times, Until We're Fish is an intimate exploration into the souls of people willing to sacrifice everything to be free.