Sign-In
Cart
The Block Captain's Daughter: Volume 11
Paperback
Series: Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas, Book 11
Publisher Price: $14.95
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 080614291X
ISBN13: 9780806142913
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Aug 18 2012
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780806142913
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Aug 18 2012
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe's dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.
In this highly imaginative work of fiction by the acclaimed author of Mother Tongue, Demetria MartÃnez weaves a portrait of six unforgettable characters, whose lives intertwine through their activism as they seek to create a better world and find meaning in their own lives. At the center of this circle of friends is Lupe, and her heartfelt letters to Destiny punctuate the narrative. Until she crossed the border alone and without papers, Lupe worked in a maquiladora in Mexico. Rescued by strangers, she has made a family for herself among the kindhearted friends, swept up in various causes, who will be her daughter's godparents.
Deftly alternating between first-person and second-person narratives, conscious states and dream states, The Block Captain's Daughter is full of delightful surprises, even as it deals with universal themes of desire and risk, death and birth, and the powerful ties that bind us all together.
Deftly alternating between first-person and second-person narratives, conscious states and dream states, The Block Captain's Daughter is full of delightful surprises, even as it deals with universal themes of desire and risk, death and birth, and the powerful ties that bind us all together.
Also from
Martínez, Demetria
Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women, Two Worlds (A Dialogue and New & Selected Poems)
Sherman, Susan
Martínez, Demetria
Paperback
$18.05
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
From $14.99
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
$9.50
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback
$79.43