A shell for Angela
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Author
Publication
1995 - Arte Público Press, Houston, Texas
Language
English
Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1110386M
- ISBN-101558851232
- OCLC Control Number31206775
- OCLC Control Numbershellforangela00lach
- Library of Congress Control Number94036140
and 2 more
- Goodreads3633409
- LibraryThing7230849
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.A2453 S54 1995
Description
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.
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