Now We Will Be Happy, Paperback
de: Amina Gautier
Publicat de: University of Nebraska Press
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- Author: Amina Gautier
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier's characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.
The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn't seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles.
Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.
 
Review citations
- Publishers Weekly - 07/21/2014 Booklist - pg. 46 - 09/01/2014 Kirkus Reviews - 10/01/2014
General | |
Anul | 2012 |
Autor | Amina Gautier |
Cod de bare | 9780803255395 |
Editura | University of Nebraska Press |
Dimensiuni | 214 x 137 |
ISBN | 080325539X |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 128 |
Format | Brosata |