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A shell for Angela
- Title
- A shell for Angela / by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman.
- Author
- Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas.
- Publication
- Houston : Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3562.A2453 S54 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 214 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- From the moment nine-year-old Angela Martin sees her father led away on a summer day by immigration officers, she spends her life denying her Mexican roots. As the novel opens, Angela Martin Raine, a woman with a newly born fear and a newly awakened regret prodding her, leaves a comfortable Los Angeles home and a distressed husband to return to a fishing village in Mexico, there to face the reality of her denial.
- The story of her journey is told in juxtaposition to the story of a crucial summer in her childhood, "the summer of the fruit picking," when her father was involved in an attempted fruit pickers' strike in the Central Valley. As a result of his activities, her father was unjustly deported and subsequently murdered in a twisted vendetta.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 1558851232 :
- LCCN
- 94036140
- OCLC
- 31206775
- ocm31206775
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries