Ana Castillo
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"In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood"--
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"Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. Her sexual obsession with him flares as she checks out her other options, but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant...
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Tome es un pueblito pequeno y aparentemente apacible en Nuevo Mexico central. En las habiles manos de Ana Castillo este asombroso lugar se nos revela como un sitio de maravillas, lleno de vida y conflictos: del pasado con el presente, lo real con lo sobrenatural, lo comico con lo horrifico, las tradiciones nativas con lo latino y lo "anglo," las mujeres con los hombres. Con voz intima y locuaz, con la libertad narrativa de una Cervantes del suroeste...
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Esta novela de Ana Castillo, autora aclamada por la critica, es un juego de pasion, amor e independencia. Carmen la coja es la historia de una bailarina de Chicago fisicamente impedida desafiando los estereotipos sociales. Carmen Santos inicia un romance con Manolo por el cual se definira su vida. Desafiando la severidad de su madre y a pesar de la poliomielitis en una de sus piernas, Carmen se levanta con fuerza como una bailarina de flamenco, siendo...
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Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women-Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist-this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. This groundbreaking debut novel received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict.