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Excerpt from Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Call Me Cassandra

A Novel

by Marcial Gala

Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala X
Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala

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  • First Published:
    Jan 2022, 224 pages

    Paperback:
    Jan 2023, 224 pages

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I resembled Nancy so much that I looked more like her son than my mother's.

Copyright © 2019 by Marcial Gala

Translation copyright © 2022 by Anna Kushner

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