Dogs of Cuba
Regal House is proud to bring you Edie Meidav’s DOGS OF CUBA on June 1, 2027
“DOGS OF CUBA is a wise, heart-breaking novel by a writer who fully understands what happens to a dream deferred. Edie Emanuela Meidav has talent to spare and this story of a doomed, hopeful love match between Cuban kids who grew up together, one chasing glory as a boxer, the other loving him, would turn the heart of a stone. I read every word and was hungry for more.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and The Birdwatcher
"Gorgeously rhythmic and noir-raw, DOGS OF CUBA is a sparring match between bodies (human and land), between the heart and the 'best hell' of the mind, between Teo and Nina, trapped by lust and illusion. What a rapturous novel, the most emotionally alive love story I've read in years—a 'mad up-down blur.' Shred the redemption arc and step into the ring, I dare you."—Margot Douaihy, USA Today best-selling author of Scorched Grace, Blessed Water, and Divine Ruin
“In this smoldering tale of love and politics, Edie Meidav plucks figures of geopolitical noir—a reporter filing from Havana; a Cuban revolutionary boxer—and shapes them into earthy bodies living out humid, lyrical passages of yearning and doubt. A little like Joan Didion's THE LAST THING HE WANTED, this is a novel that elegantly fractures a genre to reveal its splintered, dazzling, mutlifaceted truth.”
— Jon Raymond, author and screenwriter of God and Sex and First Cow
“For Edie Meidav, language is not merely functional. Language to Meidav is texture and meaning – rich evocations of people and places, twined with challenging circumstances and life’s complicated choices. She proved this vividly in such novels as Crawl Space and Lola, California, and does so once again in Dogs of Cuba. In this engaging book, Meidav turns her attention to boxing, as revealed in such thoughtful passages as this: ‘Like that riddle I used to ask our daughter: what is both possible and impossible? And she was so good at waiting as if she could figure it out, as if answers could arrive on a tradewind or something more solid, the perfection of a companion better than a sphinx. Every fight has a thesis and the end of the thesis is always the hardest to prove, as Perez, the theoretician of Cuban boxing used to say.’ This kind of prose makes Meidav’s work ceaselessly captivating: from a sport, we explore a life.”
—Joel Drucker, author, Jimmy Connors Saved My Life