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High spirits : short stories on Dominican diaspora / Camille Gomera-Tavarez.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.1.G65217 H54 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gomera-Tavarez, Camille, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Dominican Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Dominican Americans.
- Family life--Fiction.
- Dominican Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Domestic fiction.
- short stories.
- Young adult fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montclair : Levine Querido, 2022.
- Summary:
- "High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family – the Beléns – across multiple generations. It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa – and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too. It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical – and its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity. But most of all, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille Gomera-Tavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new voices to emerge in years."--Front jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Stickball
- Colmado
- Swimming in circles
- Cut day
- Vamo 'pa la playa
- Payphone
- Bárbaro
- Skipping stones
- Life after the storm
- Domino
- High spirits.
- Notes:
- Pura Belpré Award - Young Adult Author, Honor, 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781646141296
- 1646141296
- OCLC:
- 1263663232
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