Esperanza S Box Of Saints

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144169

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Esperanza's Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón Pdf

Esperanza's Box of Saints is a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child -- a mission that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the rowdy brothels of Tijuana and a rarely seen side of Los Angeles. Rescued from turmoil by her favorite saint, Esperanza embarks on a journey that tests her faith, teaches her the ways of the world, and transforms her from a fervently religious innocent to an independent, sexual, and passionately devout woman.

Author : Maria Amparo Escandon
Publisher : Touchstone Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015046883990

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Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon Pdf

"Like Water for Chocolate" meets "Candide" in this stunning debut novel about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child--a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the brothels of Tijuana and the streets of Los Angeles. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Maria Amparo Escandon
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417636319

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Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon Pdf

With her favorite saint to guide her, Esperanza Diaz, a beautiful young widow, leaves her humble Mexican village on a search for her missing twelve-year-old daughter and learns the nature of sin and forgiveness

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Apparitions
ISBN : 0330391992

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Esperanza's Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón Pdf

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250802576

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L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • 2022 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints. “There’s a 100% chance you’ll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down!”—Reese Witherspoon “This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A lively and ambitious family novel."—New York Times Book Review Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants a little rain. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and he’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. With quick wit and humor, María Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307336996

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Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by María Amparo Escandón Pdf

From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision). “1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life—that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything—adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl’s mother—until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. In González and Daughter Trucking Co., bestselling author María Amparo Escandón seamlessly blends together these elements into one compelling and unexpected conclusion that will have you cheering for Libertad and filled with joy.

Author : Jamie Martinez Wood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438107851

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Latino Writers and Journalists by Jamie Martinez Wood Pdf

Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140605

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Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature by Luz Elena Ramirez Pdf

Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345807199

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

Author : Holly E. Martin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488490

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Writing Between Cultures by Holly E. Martin Pdf

Hybrid narrative forms are used frequently by authors exploring or living in multicultural societies as a method of reflecting multicultural lives. This timely book examines this rhetorical strategy, which permits an author to bridge cultures via literary technique. Strategies covered include multilingualism, magical realism, ironic humor, the use of mythological figures from the characters' heritage cultures, and the presentation of different perspectives on landscapes and other spaces as related to ethnicity. By investigating elements of ethnic literature comparatively, this book reaches beyond the boundaries of any one ethnic group, a vital quality in today's world.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292784376

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Postethnic Narrative Criticism by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie have made brilliant use of magical realism to articulate the trauma of dislocation and the legacies of colonialism that people of color experience in the postcolonial, multiethnic world. This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Frederick Aldama engages in theoretically sophisticated readings of Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, and Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Coining the term "magicorealism" to characterize these works, Aldama not only creates a postethnic critical methodology for enlarging the contact zone between the genres of novel, film, and autobiography, but also shatters the interpretive lens that traditionally confuses the transcription of the real world, where truth and falsity apply, with narrative modes governed by other criteria.

Author : Harold S. Kushner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805241938

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner Pdf

Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.

Author : Laura Elena Belmonte
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826366139

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Borderland Brutalities by Laura Elena Belmonte Pdf

In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.

Author : Bernadine Hernández,Karen Roybal
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822988120

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Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo by Bernadine Hernández,Karen Roybal Pdf

For more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically engage transnational issues of space, identity, and belonging. Her contributions to Latinx cultural production and to Chicana feminist thought have transcended and contributed to feminist praxis, ethnic literature, and border studies throughout the Americas. Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo is the first edited collection that focuses on Castillo’s oeuvre, which directly confronts what happens in response to cultural displacement, mixing, and border crossing. Divided into five sections, this collection thinks about Castillo’s poetics, language, and form, as well as thematic issues such as borders, immigration, gender, sexuality, and transnational feminism. From her first political poetry, Otro Canto, published in 1977, to her mainstream novels such as The Mixquiahuala Letters, So Far From God, and The Guardians, this collection aims to unravel how Castillo’s writing impacts people of color around the globe and works in solidarity with other third world feminisms.

Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher : Picador
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250055866

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The Tattooed Soldier by Héctor Tobar Pdf

Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo—yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites a psychological showdown between these two men. Each will discover that the war in Central America has migrated with them as they are engulfed by the quemazones—"the great burning" of the Los Angeles riots. A tragic tale of loss and destiny in the underbelly of an American city, The Tattooed Soldier is Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Héctor Tobar's mesmerizing exploration of violence and the marks it leaves upon us.