Extranjera

by Lola Haskins

This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author's journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her bisabuela, boards a bus. She starts out determined: "Yes foreign is a word for fear. Yes I am coming home." But then, because "it is afraid, staying in a language where you were not born," she retreats, hiding first behind we, then behind masks. But when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586540602
• ISBN13: 9781586540609
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"