Lady without land : señorita sin tierra / Krystal Anali Vazquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vazquez, Krystal Anali, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Ethnic identity--Fiction.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American families--Fiction.

Mexican American families.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Señorita sin tierra

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : TRP: The University Press of SHSU, [2024]

Summary:

"Lady without Land is a story told in fragments about señorita who feels lost in and lost without Los Angeles. She uses classic literature and cocktail recipes to organize and populate bits and pieces of a life: growing up as a Mexican middle-class girl in a predominantly white suburb where neighbors labeled her family the "dirty" Mexicans; being bullied by an older sister on car rides from Los Angeles to Mexico, grappling with a father's gambling addiction, and, later, his death; journeying on the continuous carousel of lovers the Pacific and Atlantic coasts have to offer. A shaken and stirred abecedarian, a sloppy yet put-together künstlerroman, about charting one's life path amid cultural pressures and the grip of the ever-present past, the book can be read forwards or backwards and, with any hope, completely out of sequence so that no reader can read this novel the same way twice"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and recipes.

George Garrett fiction prize, 2023.

Other Format:

Online version: Vazquez, Krystal Anali, 1989- Lady without land.

ISBN:

9781680033908

1680033905

OCLC:

1430986864

Publisher Number:

90101237021