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# Garcia, library engage in ‘Monkey’ business By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/garcia-library-engage-in-monkey-business-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2003-10-10T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:05:29.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Ocean Park, #archive-import

The Santa Monica Public Library presents acclaimed novelist Cristina Garcia, who will be reading from her new novel, “Monkey Hunting,” and discussing her life as a writer at the Fairview Branch Library.

Cristina Garcia was born in Havana and grew up in New York City. Her first novel, “Dreaming in Cuban,” a story of three generations of women torn apart by the Fidel Castro-led revolution, was nominated for a National Book Award. Garcia has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’Award. She recently edited and wrote the introduction to “A Cubanesimo!,” an anthology celebrating contemporary Cuban literature.

In “Monkey Hunting,” her first novel in six years, Garcia writes a lyrical tale about an extended Chinese-Cuban family, encompassing five generations, four countries and two turbulent centuries.

All ages are welcome to attend the lecture, which begins at 7:30 p.m. The library is located at 2101 Ocean Park Blvd. For more information about this free “Teen Read Week” event, call (310) 458-8600.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 10, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)