Island of Bones: Essays

by Joy Castro

Book Overview

What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro's unmoored life of searching and striving that she's turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones . In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271425
• ISBN13: 9780803271425
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"