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bicultural coming-of-age stories
bilingual identity struggles
books about cultural assimilation struggles
books about cultural duality
books about reconnecting with culture
books on cultural hybridity
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cultural dislocation narratives
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essays about heritage and belonging
exploring family heritage in memoir
Guatemalan American author memoir
Guatemalan American identity stories
Guatemalan American memoir
Guatemalan civil war memory
Guatemalan cultural memory in literature
Guatemalan diaspora experiences
Guatemalan genocide history in memoir
Guatemalan history in literature
Guatemalan roots in American literature
immigrant daughter narratives
immigrant family narratives
Latin American heritage stories
Latinx identity in literature
Latinx immigrant literature
Latinx literature about identity
Latinx women writers in America
life between two cultures memoir
literature about bicultural experience
memoirs about cultural roots
memoirs about family history
memoirs about home and homeland
memoirs about learning Spanish
memoirs about returning home
memoirs exploring racial identity
memoirs of family and identity
memoirs of women writers of color
narratives about cultural navigation
narratives of language and identity
narratives of migration and return
narratives of war and survival
personal essays on belonging
stories about intergenerational trauma
stories about rediscovering language
stories of Latinx identity exploration
women writers on cultural identity
women's memoirs about identity
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345677
- Weight: 305g
- Dimensions: 139 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, ""What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?"" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return-to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.
Jennifer De Leon is author of Don't Ask Me Where I'm From and editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. De Leon has published prose in over a dozen literary journals, including Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
