"The Only Sound Is the Wind is a captivating collision of the human and the animal, the everyday and the uncanny. Written with precision and lyric beauty, these stories have a bite and a soul, exploring the lives of Cuban Americans with both a sharp wit and a repository of compassion. Pascha Sotolongo has written a book thats simply exceptional, filled with startling, surreal, and utterly spectacular stories that demand to be savored." -- Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, author of Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare "The intimate, incendiary stories in Pascha Sotolongos elegantly woven debut collection offer an ode to the grief and exhilaration of diaspora, probe the delicate shades of gray between solitude and loneliness, and hinge, ultimately, on metamorphosis. The Only Sound is the Wind is a scar shaped like Cubaa gorgeous scar." -- Joy Castro, author of One Brilliant Flame "Pascha Sotolongo's collection The Only Sound Is the Wind gives us characters who are navigating migrations of body and spirit. Through lyrical and empathetic prose, Sotolongo inexorable movement towards their, and now our, new realities. Sotolongos beautiful debut is proof that the short story is not done with us yet." -- Rubén Degollado, author of The Family Izquierdo
