Sal de tu tierra

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

A BOOK ABOUT THE INNER CONEXION WITH THE EARTH. IT IS ALSO A BRAVE AND HONEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR.

Bob Dylan y Leonard Cohen transformaron el arte de leer la música, escuchar la literatura y escribir la historia. La década de los 60, que los vio nacer como artistas, los convirtió en voceros involuntarios de una generación privada de derechos, desconcertada y desilusionada del mundo, consternada por la guerra y el fascismo. Este fascinante retrato político, cultural, artístico y psicológico de estos escritores e intérpretes icónicos muestra cómo se convirtieron en los maestros de la expresión emocional, en una brújula de los poetas beat, cómo se revolucionaron a sí mismos y a...

"I hope that this anthology of Spanish writers in the US will serve as a forerunner to future academic studies on a literary body of work that, although heterogeneous and varying, stands as a key and indivisible part of contemporary Spanish literature.” -Gerardo Piña-Rosales. The anthology contains prose and poetry from, among others, the author, José Luis Ponce de León, Ana María Facundo, Manuel Durán, Carlos Perellón, and Jesús Torrecilla.