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Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? : A Novel by Bárbara Renaud González (2009, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292719582

ISBN-139780292719583

eBay Product ID (ePID)71683438

Product Key Features

Book TitleGolondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? : a Novel

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFamily Life, General, Romance / General

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBárbara Renaud González

Book SeriesChicana Matters Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-047829

Table Of ContentAuthor's Note The Legend of the Golondrina Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Where are you going, my beloved swallow? Part 2. What home are you seeking with your untiring wings? Part 3. To reach it safely, what wind will you follow? Part 4. Your wings have endured such storms and you are so far from home. Part 5. Come to me, sweet feathered pilgrimed stranger. Epilogue

SynopsisRunner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010 The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the heart of the person left behind. The swallow in this story is Amada García, a young Mexican woman in a brutal marriage, who makes a heart-wrenching decision--to leave her young daughter behind in Mexico as she escapes to el Norte searching for love, which she believes must reside in the country of freedom. However, she falls in love with the man who brings her to the Texas border, and the memories of those three passionate days forever sustain and define her journey in Texas. She meets and marries Lázaro Mistral, who is on his own journey--to reclaim the land his family lost after the U.S.-Mexican War. Their opposing narratives about love and war become the legacy of their first-born daughter, Lucero, who must reconcile their stories into her struggle to find "home," as her mother, Amada, finally discovers the country where love beats its infinite wings. Bárbara Renaud González, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us the first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post-World War II Texas., Runner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010 The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the heart of the person left behind. The swallow in this story is Amada Garcia, a young Mexican woman in a brutal marriage, who makes a heart-wrenching decision--to leave her young daughter behind in Mexico as she escapes to el Norte searching for love, which she believes must reside in the country of freedom. However, she falls in love with the man who brings her to the Texas border, and the memories of those three passionate days forever sustain and define her journey in Texas. She meets and marries Lazaro Mistral, who is on his own journey--to reclaim the land his family lost after the U.S.-Mexican War. Their opposing narratives about love and war become the legacy of their first-born daughter, Lucero, who must reconcile their stories into her struggle to find "home," as her mother, Amada, finally discovers the country where love beats its infinite wings. Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us the first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post-World War II Texas., A powerful story of losses, triumphs, and the strong ties that bind a working-class Tejano family in the Texas panhandle.

LC Classification NumberPS3607.O556G65 2009