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The Comeback
A no-holds-barred satire about ethnicity, racism and revolutionary politics, of undercover police, academics, psychiatrists and athletes. Our Puerto Rican-Eskimo hero is a collegiate ice-hockey star who goes through the throes of a classic identity crisis and is treated by a zany team of Freudians.
No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook Or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again
This sweeping drama of intimately connected families--black, white, and Latino--boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamí a Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. As Billy's colorful new family draws her into their fold, so Vidamia determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.
Blood Fugues
A tale of twisted family relationships and secretsconcerning Kenny Romero's life, including his father's illegal activities in years past and a revelation concerning his late maternal grandmother.
Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture
Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture is a collection of a dozen essays by Caribbean scholars living in the Caribbean and around the world. Each of the three sections of the book explores the Caribbean as a diasporic space through the lenses of literary and cultural systems. “Negotiating Borders: Women, Sexuality, and Identity” examines the creolized identities of Caribbean societies, gender roles of women, impact of sexual tourism, and censorship of Latino gays and lesbians. The essayists in this section note that much work still needs to be done in academia to give voice to repressed Caribbean populations. “Creating Spaces of Caribbean Artistic Expression: Multipl...
Mendoza's Dreams
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No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook Or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again
A Washington Post Best Book of Year Winner of the 2004 Latino Book Award This sweeping drama of intimately connected families-black, white, and Latino-boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. While Billy's colorful new family draws Vidamia into their fold, so she determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Irrepressibly exuberant and wildly imaginative, Yunque's third novel is a hilarious picaresque tale that stretches the perceptions of life, love, and politics in the U.S. through the exploits of a perpetual loser who finds salvation on the streets of New York.
Washed by the Gulf Stream
This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.
A Whistler in the Nightworld
A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Irrepressibly exuberant and wildly imaginative, Yunque's third novel is a hilarious picaresque tale that stretches the perceptions of life, love, and politics in the U.S. through the exploits of a perpetual loser who finds salvation on the streets of New York.
