Author : Lauren Dittmer
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category :
ISBN :
Lily is embarking on a backpacking trip across South America. She is nineteen, travelling alone, and every bit a gringa girl. Her journal tells a story of love and heartbreak, failure and triumph, and all the bizarre, thrilling, humiliating and exhausting delights in between on the journey to finding herself, which is of course the ultimate goal of any Gap Year. Based (probably too honestly) on true events.
Author : Gabriella De Ferrari
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Examining the cases of Quebec, Catalonia, and Scotland, Keating (political science, U. of Western Ontario) argues that nationalist politics have shifted from demanding a nation-state to preserving social cohesion in a world of weakened states. He asserts that the new nationalisms are civic rather than ethnic and exclusive, and that they are free trading and rooted in civil society as much as in state institutions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Andrew Altschul
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612198228
A gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism … Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. Ten years later, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels, he struggles to understand Leonora, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? In this powerful and timely new novel, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, author and text, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice.
Author : Monka Jean
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1665755490
Bella lives in extreme poverty in Tijuana, Mexico, with her young mother in a village of cardboard boxes. When she is five, a severe rainstorm causes the box that she and her mother are living in to slide down the hill and onto a road that leads to the border. As Bella struggles to save herself, an American family traveling to their beach house in Baja finds her and pulls her from the mud. The family is asked by one of the village rescuers to care for Bella for a week until her mother can be found. When a well-fed, well-scrubbed Bella and the American family return to Tijuana, though, her mother has vanished. The family must make a decision whether to leave Bella at the Tijuana orphanage in hopes the mother will find her or take her illegally back to the States with them. Ten years later Bella has become an important part of her new family and has adjusted to her middle-class life. When things at the American border become more tense and difficult, the family becomes concerned about Bella’s lack of paperwork and decides to no longer take her across the border to the beach house. When the family makes their trip to close up the beach property without Bella, she and her best friend make a dangerous decision that will impact Bella’s future and possibly separate her from her beloved adopted family.
Author : Carmen Rivera
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573663351
La Gringa is about a young woman’s search for her identity. Maria Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to connect with her homeland. Although this is her first trip to Puerto Rico, she has had an intense love for the island, and even majored in Puerto Rican Studies in college. Once Maria is in Puerto Rico, she realizes that Puerto Rico does not welcome her with open arms. The majority of the Puerto Ricans on the island consider her an American – a gringa – and Maria considers this a betrayal. If she’s a Puerto Rican in the United States and an American in Puerto Rico, Maria concludes that she is nobody everywhere. Her uncle, Manolo, spiritually teaches her that identity isn’t based on superficial and external definitions, but rather is an essence that she has had all along in her heart. This play is published in a bilingual edition; if you are applying for licensing rights, please state which version you wish to produce.
Author : Ndoro, Tariro
Publisher : Modjaji Books
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1928215769
You wear silence sitting on the concrete floor of a library a shroud like speech Language does not belong to you… An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
Author : Laura Resau
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0440240255
With a dazzling and thoughtful voice, this critically acclaimed novel deals directly with the challenges and dangers of immigration, exploring the ties that bind us together in an age when issues threaten to divide us. One night Sophie and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, a six-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes to live with Sophie, her parents, and Sophie's Aunt Dika, a refugee of the war in Bosnia. Sophie loves Pedro—her Principito, or Little Prince. But after a year, Pedro’s surviving family in Mexico makes contact, and Sophie, Dika, Dika’s new boyfriend, and his son must travel with Pedro to his hometown so that he can make a heartwrenching decision. An IRA Award Winner An Américas Award Honor Book An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults A Colorado Book Award Winner A Cybil Award Finalist A School Library Journal Best Book An Oprah’s Kids’ Reading List Selection A CCBC Choice List Selection A Richie’s Pick ★ “A captivating read.”—School Library Journal, Starred Review ★ "The vivid characters, the fine imagery, and the satisfying story arc make this a rewarding novel." –Booklist, Starred Review ★ "The prose captivates from the first chapter ... a vibrant, large-hearted story." –Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Author : Erin Ashley Sieber
Publisher : Author House
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1496924363
Step into a new world of learning, in which the journey itself is actually fun and exciting! The Gringa has taken a somewhat "non traditional" approach toward teaching the Spanish language to English speakers. In doing so, she pioneered a system, The Gringa Way, which allows learners to translate their English thoughts into Spanish thoughts and sentences. This total "new approach" not only makes the language much easier to learn and understand but it transforms what many thought was "impossible" and makes it completely achievable. Many people have been totally overwhelmed by the "strict rules" and vast grammatical differences they discovered when trying the "old" and "traditional" methods of learning usable Spanish - so they quit - saying it is simply way too hard and frustrating. With The Gringa Way method and the help of this book, you will be speaking Spanish easier than you ever thought possible.
Author : Andrew Foster Altschul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780151014842
In this sprawling debut novel, Calliope Bird Morath is the daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath, whose horrific suicide devastates the world.
Author : Frances de Pontes Peebles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735211000
"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." --NPR "Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine's voices must exist beyond the page." -People The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other. Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate. Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music. One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes--and haunt their memories. Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship--its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses--and considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our lives.
