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    612-822-4611

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Memory Mambo

Memory Mambo

Obejas, Achy

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ISBN10: 1573440175
ISBN13: 9781573440172
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile--from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality--and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home.

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