New York.– My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories, a collection of fourteen interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx, written by Annecy Baez, is among the year's best books in the United States, according to a panel of experts including authors, reporters, librarians and readers.

The stories, which span three decades beginning in the 1970s, deal with topics ranging from mother-daughter struggles, father-daughter betrayal, family, and child abuse, to emerging sexuality, love, loss and healing.

Annecy Baez, winner of the 2007 Curbstone Press Marmol Prize for First Latina Fiction, was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Bronx. A psychotherapist by training, she holds a doctoral degree in clinical social work from New York University. Presently, she is the Director of the Counseling Center at Lehman College/CUNY.

Her Recent fiction is anthologized in Viajeros del Rocio: 25 Narradores Dominicanos de la Diaspora (2008) and Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (2008), Tertuliando/Hanging Out, and Callaloo.