Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliantshe is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller.award-winning author Julia Alvarez Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and womens rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path.As she considers moving to California to join La Causa, Mexican American activist Cesar Chavezs movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmer workers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a plane ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says, tell her, her children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get Tina back to Chicago. But it won’t be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well.Katia is but one of the voices introduced in this dazzling collection of short fiction from revered writer Ana Castillo. Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, the stories in Doa Cleanwell Leaves Home illuminate a chorus of people whose stories will leave you breathless.
Ana Castillo
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home [EPUB ebook]
Stories
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home [EPUB ebook]
Stories
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9780063259430 ● Publisher HarperCollins ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8927016 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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