Newly translated from the Spanish, the novel My Favourite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog (McSweeney’s) by Cuban writer Legna Rodríguez Iglesias is a novel in the form of fifteen linked stories which “creates an unsparing multigenerational portrait” of Cuba. Touching on issues of family, feminism, and political and sexual identity, the novel turns a classic story of migration into a fresh and deeply original exploration of the self in the world.