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Henríquez attended Northwestern University; she majored in English, graduating in 1999. [8] She then earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [9] She has described her time in the Iowa program as "a great experience", [10] highly valuable both for validating her writing as well as developing her skills: "I have all my notebooks...and I still open them every once in a while to find ...
The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Knopf.The story is told from multiple first-person points of view, with the two main narrators being Alma Rivera, a roughly 30-year-old housewife from Pátzcuaro, Mexico, and Mayor Toro, a teenage social outcast and first-generation Hispanic and Latino American whose parents were originally from Panama.
Christina Henry (born 1974, in New York, USA) is an American novelist working in the horror and dark fantasy genre. [1] "Christina Henry" is a pseudonym of Tina Raffaele, based on her name (Tina), and the names of her husband (Chris) and son (Henry). [2] Her Black Wings series, is a national bestseller. [3]
From a memoir on the Afro Latinx experience in the U.S. to a graphic novel about crying, here's what we're reading in June.
Aunt Teresa hides Cristina when she becomes visibly pregnant while her husband is away, and helps Vittorio understand life through stories in a book she gave him called Lives of the Saints, while in the novel Zia Lucia (Aunt Teresa) is a completely different character from "La Maestra". Cristina and Vittorio depart to Canada to meet Mario, but ...
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice (Published in Spanish as El invencible verano de Liliana) is a 2023 book by Cristina Rivera Garza, published by Penguin Random House. In the book, Rivera Garza paints a portrait of her sister, Liliana, who was murdered in 1990 Mexico by her boyfriend.
Overall, Fletcher's book lacks the humor or adventure of Barbara Park's "Junie B. Jones" series or Mary Pope Osborne's "Magic Tree House" books" [2] The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books was also mixed in their review saying "The story line, like the accompanying line art, seems dated and rather bland, but the relationship ...
Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles is a 2010 mystery novel by Kira Henehan. It was shortlisted for the Believer Book Award [1] [2] and the Indie Booksellers Choice Award. [3] The novel is a mystery, and concerns a detective, Finley, who is investigating a puppet troupe led by a Professor Uppal. [4]