Mayra: A Novel Grace Byron With its legs crossed and

With its legs crossed and arms tucked behind its head

pitting us against one another

he'd be tempted to turn down the request to fill in as teacher for a week-long residential course

From cuddles to nose boops

Mayra: A Novel Grace Byron With its legs crossed andAn eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida's swamplands. A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel. Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE It's been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Hialeah, a Cuban neighborhood just west of Miami,