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The last Karankawas : a novel
- Title
- The last Karankawas : a novel / Kimberly Garza.
- Author
- Garza, Kimberly, 1985-
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 274 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A kaleidoscopic, emotionally charged debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. Unflinching, lyrical, and singular, The Last Karankawas is a portrait of America rarely witnessed, where browning palm trees and oily waters mark the forefront of ecological change. It is a deeply imagined exploration of familial inheritance, human perseverance, and the histories we assign to ourselves, establishing Kimberly Garza as a brilliant new literary voice"--
- Carly Castillo has only ever known Albacore Avenue. Abandoned as a child by her Filipina mother and Mexican-American father, Carly returns each morning from her nursing shift to the house she shares with her grandmother, Magdalena. But when Magdalena slips into dementia, Carly begins to imagine a life elsewhere. Jess Rivera, her boyfriend and all-star shortstop turned seaman, treasures the salty, familiar island air. Years ago, he had a chance to leave Galveston for a bigger city with more possibilities. But he didn't then, and he sure as hell won't now. Deftly moving through these characters' lives and those of the individuals who circle them--Mercedes, Jess's undocumented cousin; Kristin, Magdalena's daytime nurse; Luz, the wife of Carly's best friend; Schafer, Jess's coworker out on the gulf--Garza presents a mosaic depiction of everyday survival in Southern Texas. As word spreads of a storm gathering strength offshore, building into Hurricane Ike, they each must make a difficult decision: board up the windows and hunker down, or flee inland and abandon their hard-won home.
- Subject
- 2008
- Desertion and non-support > Fiction
- Hurricane Ike, 2008 > Fiction
- Indigenous peoples > America > Fiction
- Hispanic Americans > Texas > Fiction
- Filipino Americans > Texas > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Small cities > Fiction
- Indigenous peoples
- Hispanic Americans
- Filipino Americans
- Man-woman relationships
- Small cities
- Desertion and non-support
- Galveston (Tex.) > Fiction
- United States
- Texas
- Texas > Galveston
- America
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-64
- ISBN
- 9781250819857
- 1250819857
- LCCN
- 2021060827
- 40031324043
- OCLC
- 1262798159
- Author
- Garza, Kimberly, 1985- author.
- Title
- The last Karankawas : a novel / Kimberly Garza.
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2008
- Other Form:
- Online version: Garza, Kimberly. Last karankawas First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022 9781250819864 (DLC) 2021060828
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031324043
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-64