Geographies of Home
A Novel
$42.74
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2000
Summary
After leaving college to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find her family in disarray. One sister teeters on the brink of mental collapse, another is trapped in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children, and a third has vanished. In this dislocating urban landscape, Iliana reluctantly confronts the pervasive anger and desperation that permeate her family’s small house. She experi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140253719 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140253718 |
| Author: | Loida Maritza Perez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“With haunting magic realism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, Perez underscores the dual existence every immigrant’s child navigates. And she reminds us that even those who make us live through the unthinkable can be redeemed by their power to love”. - Latina magazine
Loida Maritza Perez
Loida Maritza Perez was born in the Dominican Republic in 1963. She lives in New York City.
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