From Publishers Weekly
In this second installment of a projected trilogy begun by The Rain God , iron-willed Josie Salazar abandons California for her Texas hometown after her husband walks out on her and her two daughters. According to PW , this "beautifully delineated, down-to-earth, affecting saga . . . vigorously portrays three generations of Mexican-Americans fighting prejudice while struggling to achieve self-definition."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Continuing the saga of the Angel family that began in Rain God ( LJ 12/84), Islas explores the effects of life on the border. Burdened by the pride of matriarch Mama Chona, all her children and grandchildren are raised to hate their Mexican, dark-skinned heritage, valuing a mythical light-skinned Spanish ancestry. Islas contrasts rebel Josie Salazar, dark and divorced, who fights the family on every front, with Josie's widowed aunt, Jesus Maria, who attempts to maintain Mama Chona's values despite the scorn of her children. The author displays consummate skill in portraying the anguish of Hispanics living on both sides of a literal and figurative border in the second volume of a proposed trilogy. An excellent addition to fiction collections.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
