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Continues the depiction of the Angel family who live on the border of Mexico and the U.S., focusing on Josie Salazar, the only divorced woman in the clan, and her aunt
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When iron-willed Josie Salazar's husband walks out on her and their two daughters, she flees California and returns to her Texas hometown just above the Mexican border. It seems her husband, Harold Newman, had good reason to dissolve their marriage, but this masterly novel's winding, nonlinear plot only gradually divulges the secrets of Josie's sprawling clan, introduced in Islas's well-received first novel, The Rain God. The second installment in a projected trilogy vigorously portrays three generations of Mexican-Americans fighting prejudice while struggling to achieve self-definition. Their adaptive responses to Anglo culture vary sharply: Josie's proud, atheistic father, Sancho, is easygoing; her pious aunt Jesus Maria sees sin everywhere; her favorite cousin, Miguel Chico, a closet homosexual, becomes a writer and is labeled an "ethnic novelist"--a fate one hopes will not befall the author of this beautifully delineated, down-to-earth, affecting saga.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Continuing the saga of the Angel family that began in Rain God ( LJ 12/84), Islas explores the effects of life on the border. Burdened by the pride of matriarch Mama Chona, all her children and grandchildren are raised to hate their Mexican, dark-skinned heritage, valuing a mythical light-skinned Spanish ancestry. Islas contrasts rebel Josie Salazar, dark and divorced, who fights the family on every front, with Josie's widowed aunt, Jesus Maria, who attempts to maintain Mama Chona's values despite the scorn of her children. The author displays consummate skill in portraying the anguish of Hispanics living on both sides of a literal and figurative border in the second volume of a proposed trilogy. An excellent addition to fiction collections.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Migrant Souls
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Migrant Souls
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. An excellent copy of the first edition/first printing: book fine (pencil ghost of previous price, front free endpaper, else as new), dustcover as new. Light grey paper-covered boards, green cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 247 pp. "Arturo Islas has brought to this new book the compelling qualities which made The Rain God so memorable. The Angel family are 'children of the border,' 'educated wetback and migrant souls,' as one of them, after a few drinks, puts it. 'Just like our souls are between heaven and earth, so are we in between two countries completely different from each other.' Islas writes of that condition with anger, a keen comic sense, bewilderment, compassion, and a lyrical imagination." (Denise Levertov) (1722RO002). Seller Inventory # 3695
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