Product Description: Latina bibliophile Caridad falls out of love again and again, with much help from Anton Chekhov, Gustave Flaubert, Theodore Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Hardy, and other deceased white men of letters. Raised in a household of women, she rejects examples of womanhood offered by her long-suffering mother, her caustic eldest sister Felicia, and her pliant and sentimental middle sister Esperanza...read more

Product Description: An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class roots in America. The contributors include Dorothy Allison, Joy Castro, Lisa D...read more

Product Description: Enrique, a young boy in Peralta Middle School, faces abuse at home and danger on the barrio streets. Yet he is driven to succeed by the desire to join that "other America" he sees on TV and in the movies, and is aided in his quest by compassionate teachers...read more

The winner of the 2002 Miguel Mármol Prize explores an array of identity issues in the Latino community in a debut collection of eleven intriguing tales of characters struggling to fit into American culture as they deal with differences in race, culture, class, language, and gender to find out who they are and to find others who will accept them for who they are. (Story Collection) (view table of contents)