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My favorite girlfriend was a French bulldog
- Title
- My favorite girlfriend was a French bulldog / Legna Rodríguez Iglesias ; translation by Megan McDowell.
- Author
- Rodríguez Iglesias, Legna, 1984-
- Publication
- San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ7392.R632 M513 2020 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- McDowell, Megan
- Description
- 204 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, emotional and physical violence, and the American Dream define the long journey of our narrator and her beloved pet dog, who gives the book both its title and its unforgettable ending. In its daring style and structure--both playful and profound, youthful and mature - and its frank discussion of political and sexual identity, My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog marks the emergence of an original and essential new voice.
- Uniform Title
- Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés. English
- Alternative Title
- Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Fiction.
- Linked stories.
- Short stories.
- Novels.
- Language (note)
- English translation from the Spanish.
- ISBN
- 9781944211776
- 1944211772
- OCLC
- 1138610458
- on1138610458
- SCSB-14288329
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library