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La Casa Al Lado Del Camino
Granddaughter Emily Haozous describes her grandmother as a woman who " has the tenacity to get what she wants accomplished, whether that is raising a family of four boys or supporting her husband artist through the lean times. ... She is a role model of a woman who knows how to get the job done. She has always been a woman who has worked within a world that has not always been friendly to women - or strong Native women." Fidencia Ana Maria Chavez y Gallegos de Houser's long awaited memoir details her early years and familial history in Northern New Mexico. Ana Maria was born August 7, 1912, near the village of Abiquiu. She is the youngest of nine children born to Juan de Dios Gallegos and Maria Marciala Chavez. Anna Marie's memoir is a real account of self, family and community with the bountiful Northern New Mexico landscape. This memoir reads like a primer of sustainability with humor and love. It is based on recollections of more than a century of living. In this critical time, Anna Marie's stories are a revelation of the past, relevant for the present and necessary for the future.
Celebration in the Northwest
A novel on a Spanish landowner and his bastard half brother to whom he is at once attracted and repelled. The relationship is played out against the background of the approaching 1930s Spanish Civil War, the causes of which the novel examines.
The Lost Children
Set in the Spanish civil war, the author shows us the stories of beings living in a forest, their relationships, their loves and their struggle against the established order. Winning the 1958 Critics Prize and the National Literature Prize 1959, Los hijos muertos, or "The dead children" is one of the major milestones in the literary career of Ana María Matute.
Mutt on a Mission
"Mutt" is all about the journey rather than the goal to find an elusive little village. The stories focus on people, places and the events that took place along the way - seasoned with short travelogues for the full effect of travel - in a region struggling to find its' own place in new Europe. If a paragraph could sum up the value of travel in a few short sentences, I would qualify this one from one of my stories called "Vladimir of L'viv." "These six days in Ukraine were among the most memorable and precious moments in my entire life. I've had great experiences in many countries around the world, but the kindness thrust my way by Vladimir, Dariya, Marian, Marianne and of course Miroslav, w...
Villages Of Mourning
A journey of a child born into a world of turmoil and violence who must assume adult responsibilities, deprived of his youth and innocence in the midst of a political battle for control of the village that is his home—hiding in cellars and moving from place to place, eventually forcing the family to abandon the village in order to survive. He travels and escapes to cities where he receives his first formal education, struggles with illiteracy, learns the turbulent history of his country and that the political forces that destroy the village are also ravishing the entire nation. Seeking peace, solace, and opportunities for a better future, the family emigrates to the United States.
The Political Body
"This book discusses how some works of art produced in Latin America in the sixties, seventies, and eighties forged a different understanding of the female body, understood as space for the expression of a dissident subjectivity in relation to socially normalized places. Representations of art and of feminist activism interrogated the disciplining of the female body that entails as well the disciplining of the male body. Before a history of highly regulated artistic representations-regardless of the occasional exceptions a historian might point out-images erupted that questioned the social and institutional naturalization of the feminine and the masculine"--
Until the Day Arrives
A fast moving middle grade novel set in the 17th century about two Portuguese orphans who are sent to Brazil, where they encounter slaves from Africa. The novel opens when Bento is wrongly thrown into Lisbon's prison, leaving his younger sibling, Manu, to fend for himself. Fortunately, a nobleman's family reunites the siblings--although they will have be exiled to Brazil. They keep secret the fact that Manu is a girl in disguise so that she can accompany her brother aboard ship. The story shifts to the African savannah, where a young boy, Odjigi, is hunting gazelle with his father and other men. But the hunters are kidnapped by slave traders, as are the women and children of the village. In Brazil the siblings adapt to their new lives, but they are shocked by the treatment of African slaves. Manu befriends an aboriginal boy, Caiubi, and a slave, Didi, who has been separated from his father. Meanwhile Bento falls in love with Rosa, a beautiful young slave who is also searching for her family. When Manu learns about quilombos--villages hidden deep in the forest where slaves live in freedom--she is determined to help Didi and Rosa escape.
Reclaimers
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington’s White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. Until people decided to reclaim them. In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges—the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades—and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of them wise women, who persevered for decades with little hope of success to make changes happen. In uncovering their heroic stories, Spagna seeks a way for herself, and for all of us, to take back and to make right in a time of unsettling ecological change.
