Native country of the heart : a memoir
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 242 pages ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40029041470

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240).
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"As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother's journey from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer, she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother's memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss."--Amazon.com.

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