Lady without Land is a story told in fragments about se?orita 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 k?nstlerroman, 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.
Author: Krystal Anali Vazquez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 11/06/2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.95h x 7.06w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781680033908
Language: English
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