9780385319638-0385319630-American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780385319638
ISBN-10: 0385319630
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marie Arana
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Delta Trade Paperback
Format: Paperback 309 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385319638
ISBN-10: 0385319630
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marie Arana
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Delta Trade Paperback
Format: Paperback 309 pages

Summary

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (ISBN-13: 9780385319638 and ISBN-10: 0385319630), written by authors Marie Arana, was published by Delta Trade Paperback in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Hispanic & Latino (Cultural & Regional, Women, Specific Groups) books. You can easily purchase or rent American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Hispanic & Latino books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.39.

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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.

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