Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling...
The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine de Pizan has a dreamlike vision where three virtues—Reason, Rectitude and Justice—appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city...
Eugenia Tenenbaum revive en este libro períodos históricos desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XX, con el objetivo de disfrutar de las obras de arte que vieron la luz en esas épocas. Gracias a su voz cercana y rigurosa, nos reconciliaremos con el placer inmenso que nos...
Le Prix a Payer, written by Lucile Quillet, is an eye-opening story that exposes some gender equality issues so deeply rooted in our society that usually go unnoticed. In this thought-provoking book, the author gives voice to all those women who suffer in silence the...
Papá puede dibujar el mundo y construir un velero en el sótano. Mamá es preciosa, lleva siempre zapatos de tacón y vive rodeada de libros. María, la niñera, habla en calabrés y tiene un corazón superlativo. Y luego están los chicos y la pequeña Nana,...
My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt...
"You sound like a white girl". These were the words spoken to Julissa by a crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San...
A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as...
At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised—a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota—where she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred land flooded and abandoned. Joining up...
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. As she explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her,...
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud...
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