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Book Candelaria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melissa Lozada-Oliva
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 2023-09-19
  • ISBN : 1662601816
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Candelaria written by Melissa Lozada-Oliva and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Candelaria is a masterpiece from a writer destined to produce many." —Jamie Loftus, author of Raw Dog "Candelaria sticks to your soul and leaves you seeing the world and the people in it a bit differently." —Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of Olga Dies Dreaming Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet—for a reason you still cannot disclose—battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world. Author of Dreaming of You Melissa Lozada-Oliva delivers an unsettling, raucous debut novel written with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled family’s legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost. A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.

Book The Women of Candelaria

Download or read book The Women of Candelaria written by Mary Richardson Miller and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author-photographer Mary Richardson Miller offers a moving portrait of twenty-seven citizens of the Guatemalan village of Candelaria. The beauty of the Guatemalan highlands belies the harsh existence of those who live there. Amid the daily struggle to survive, the women of Candelaria--strong, deeply religious, and amazingly resilient--have emerged as the heart of their community. Their lives, from gathering firewood and fetching water to grinding corn for handmade tortillas and weaving the colorful fabric unique to the villages of Guatemala, are documented here in stirring photography and personal narrative.

Book The Guanches of Tenerife  The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria  and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement  by the Friar Alonso de Espinosa

Download or read book The Guanches of Tenerife The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement by the Friar Alonso de Espinosa written by Sir Clements Markham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written 1580-90, first published at Seville in 1594, translated with notes and an introduction. The edition includes a bibliography of the Canary Islands, 1341-1907, pp. 187-203. Translation of books I-III, with facsimiles of original t.p. and colophon, of the author's: Del origen y milagros de la santa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, que aparecio en la isla de Tenerife, con la descripcion de esta isla ... Sevilla, 1594. The fourth book, containing a list of sixty-five miracles, is omitted. Also includes: 'Remnants of the Guanche language' : p. xx-xxvi. 'Report on the present condition of the image of Our Lady of Candelaria, by Miss Ethel Trew' : p. [137]-138. 'Bibliography of the Canary Islands' : p. [139]-201. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.

Book Social Policy Expansion in Latin America

Download or read book Social Policy Expansion in Latin America written by Candelaria Garay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders - rural, informal, and unemployed workers and dependents - has been expanded dramatically. Social Policy Expansion in Latin America shows that the critical factors driving expansion are electoral competition for the vote of outsiders and social mobilization for policy change. The balance of partisan power and the involvement of social movements in policy design explain cross-national variation in policy models, in terms of benefit levels, coverage, and civil society participation in implementation. The book draws on in-depth case studies of policy making in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico over several administrations and across three policy areas: health care, pensions, and income support. Secondary case studies illustrate how the theory applies to other developing countries.

Book Notable Hispanic American Women

Download or read book Notable Hispanic American Women written by Diane Telgen and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1993 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.

Book Cuba  Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names

Download or read book Cuba Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Office of Geography
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Argentina

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  • Author : United States. Office of Geography
  • Publisher : Washington : Office of Geography, Department of the Interior
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 724 pages

Download or read book Argentina written by United States. Office of Geography and published by Washington : Office of Geography, Department of the Interior. This book was released on 1968 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gazetteer   United States Board on Geographic Names

Download or read book Gazetteer United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Presentimiento

Download or read book Presentimiento written by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, selected by Dinty W. Moore

Book Candelaria

Download or read book Candelaria written by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexico  Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names

Download or read book Mexico Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xochiquetzal Candelaria
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2011-01-20
  • ISBN : 0816528829
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Empire written by Xochiquetzal Candelaria and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both lyrical and narrative forms, these concise verses explore a family history set against the larger backdrop of Mexican history, immigration, and landscapes of the Southwest. The poet’s delicate touch lends these poems an organic quality that allows her to address both the personal and the political with equal grace. Straightforward without being simplistic or reductive, these poems manage to be intimate without seeming self-important. This distinctive collection ranges from the frighteningly whimsical image of Cortés dancing gleefully around a cannon to the haunting and poignant discovery of a dead refugee boy seemingly buried within the poet herself. The blending of styles works to blur the lines between subjects, creating a textured narrative full of both imagination and nuance. Ultimately, Empire situates individual experience in the wider social context, highlighting the power of poetry as song, performance, testimony, and witness. Addressing themes such as war, family, poverty, gender, race, and migration, Candelaria gives us a dialogue between historical and personal narratives, as well as discreet “conversations” between content and form.