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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood Paperback - 2002
by Marie Arana
This 2001 National Book Award Finalist is a rich, emotionally resonant portrait of a child who must come to terms with being neither North nor South American, but a mixture of both.
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THE CORRIDORS OF my skull are haunted.
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In her father's Peruvian family, MARIE ARANA was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who "was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica."
Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru--earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology--and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana's historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, "clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage." But most important are Arana's parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru--earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology--and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana's historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, "clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage." But most important are Arana's parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
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- Title American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
- Author Marie Arana
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date May 28, 2002
- ISBN 9780385319638 / 0385319630
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.2 x 0.5 in (13.97 x 20.83 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Journalists - United States, Arana, Marie
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Entertainment Weekly, 05/31/2002, Page 100
- New York Times, 06/16/2002, Page 28
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