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Weeping Woman: La Llorona and Other Stories

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This book is written by Alma Luz Villanueva and she has been a mother for most of her life. Chicana's face more than just American stereotypes of who they are as women. They face codices within the culture as well. This book illustrates the types of roles Chicana women fit into at this time. Mothers, grandmothers, and innocent girls. Each female has a role to play and each role is saturated in tradition.

Villanueva paints a glorious picture of how it is to live inside the Mexican American culture behind closed doors. I recommend this book to all women everywhere.

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This book is a serious of short stories that provoke extreme emotion and pulled on my heartstrings, with an interesting approach to the culture of Latin America and the world. I fell in love with the strong characters and scenes, and I found myself rereading each story over and over. A truly amazing piece of writing.

Many of these stories have been republished in anthologies, most recently, 'UNDER THE FIFTH SUN,' 'VEUS CHICANAS' (Spain), and high school, college textbooks. They run the spectrum from a child's point of view- young, homeless boys in current time Mexico- to a man dying of old age many centuries from now. Each story connected by the image of a seashell, a transformation.

I thought this book was really good. My favortie story was The Sand Castle because I thought it was neat the way that the author told it in a futuristic way about a world with global warming!