A luminous first novel about the Latina immigrant experience, peopled with "characters whose humanity is so vivid and universal that one cannot help but be swept into their torment" (Miami Herald)
After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children, and a third sister has simply disappeared. In this dislocating urban environment Iliana reluctantly confronts the anger and desperation that seem to seep through every crack of her family's small house, and experiences all the contradictions, superstitions, joys, and pains that come from a life caught between two cultures. In this magnificent debut novel, filled with graceful prose and searing detail, Loida Maritza Perez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family--and home.
After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children, and a third sister has simply disappeared. In this dislocating urban environment Iliana reluctantly confronts the anger and desperation that seem to seep through every crack of her family's small house, and experiences all the contradictions, superstitions, joys, and pains that come from a life caught between two cultures. In this magnificent debut novel, filled with graceful prose and searing detail, Loida Maritza Perez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family--and home.
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Hardback Editions
September 2000 : Library Binding
| Title: Geographies of Home Author(s): Loida Maritza Perez ISBN: 0-613-28168-3 / 978-0-613-28168-3 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Geographies of Home: A Novel Author(s): Loida Maritza Perez ISBN: 0-670-86889-2 / 978-0-670-86889-6 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2000 : Paperback
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July 1999 : Paperback
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