age ~50
from Hightstown, NJ
The seductive world of flamenco forms the backdrop for a classic tale of independence found, lost, and reclaimed. Like Bizet's legendary gypsy, Carmen "La Coja" (The Cripple) Santos is hilarious, passionate, triumphant, and mesmerizing.A renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago despite the legacy of chil...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
213
Publisher
Anchor
ISBN #
038549677X
EAN Code
9780385496773
ISBN #
8
"Paloma Negra," Ana Castillo's mother sings the dayher daughter leaves home, "I don't know if I should curse you or pray for you."Growing up as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican Indian immigrant family during the 1970s, Castillo defied convention as a writer and a feminist. A generat...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
350
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN #
1558619232
EAN Code
9781558619234
ISBN #
1
Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. As she checks out her other options, her sexual obsession with her cous' ignites but their family secrets bring them together in unexpe...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN #
1558618503
EAN Code
9781558618503
ISBN #
10
“Seductive ... full of infectious vigor ... these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad configurations. ...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
0393331679
EAN Code
9780393331677
ISBN #
9
From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has en...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN #
0812975715
EAN Code
9780812975710
ISBN #
7
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Castillo replace...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN #
0826353584
EAN Code
9780826353580
ISBN #
6
f the Dreamers points out the omissions and challenges the misconceptions of a society that recognizes race relations as primarily a black-and-white issue. Castillo's essays analyze the 500-year-old history of Mexican and Amerindian women in this country and document the ongoing political and emotio...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Plume
ISBN #
0452274249
EAN Code
9780452274242
ISBN #
5
Goddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms -- original essays, ...
Author
Ana Castillo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Riverhead Books
ISBN #
1573226300
EAN Code
9781573226301
ISBN #
4