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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.
The literary mixing of US and Spanish American culture, history, and social concerns is intensified by the inception of Latino literature written in English in the second half of the 20th century, in which authors such as Cristina García, Julia Álvarez, Gloria Anzaldúa, Oscar Hijuelos, Piri Thomas, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, and, of ...
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.
Christina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outside of Boston. She received her bachelor's degree in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College [2] in 1981 and her Ph.D. in English from University of Melbourne in 1990. [3] From 1994 to 1998 she was editor of Meanjin, one of Australia's leading literary journals. [4]
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 ...
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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]