Joy Castro

How Winter Began (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves.Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803284791
• Artikelnr.: 43811826

Autorenporträt

Joy Castro is a professor of both English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of two thrillers: Hell or High Water, winner of the 2013 Nebraska Book Award and the National Latino Book Club's book of the month selection; and Nearer Home. She is also the author of such acclaimed nonfiction as Island of Bones: Essays and The Truth Book: A Memoir, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Inhaltsangabe

A Notion I Took
How to Warp Your Kid
Other Women’s Jewels
Giving Jewel Away
To Practice the Thing
Liking It Rough
Musing
Independence Day
A Time of Snow
The Small Heart
Bloody
A Place I Shouldn’t Go
The Noren
The Tasting
A Favor I Did
How Winter Began
Under Things
Whore for a Day
The Pottery Barn and the Foster Child
The Cave
The Dream of the Father
Ruthless
Personal Effects
All the Time in the World
A Mother Who Means Well Is Harder to Lose
Dinner
The River
A Choice I Made
Gratitude