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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 Henriquez cleverly intertwines disparate stories and voices, unspooling the personal tales that underpin an iconic landmark. (Harper Collins ) The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
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 ...
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 ...
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]
The Iliac Crest is a novel written by Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera Garza and translated into the English language by Sarah Booker. The book was originally published in the Spanish language in 2002 before being translated into English in 2017.
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles is a 1987 book by Christopher Hitchens on the controversy surrounding the removal by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin of the Parthenon's sculptured friezes (which became known as the Elgin Marbles), and his subsequent sale of the Marbles to the British Museum.