"Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Hispano with the Anglo, the women with the men. With the talkative, intimate voice and the stylistic and narrative freedom of a Southwestern...

In Sapogonia, award-winning author Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical homeleand of all mestizos. Subtly political, it demonstrates how warring blood within a single body resists any peaceful resolution.

Focusing on the relationship between two strong and fiercely independent women-Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist-this epistolary novel, written as a tribute to Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, examines Mexican and Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship--Cover.

Una ilustradora colección de escritos en torno al icono más grande de la fe latinoamericana, escrita por algunos de los más importantes escritores latinos contemporáneos. Santa patrona de México, diosa maternal, protectora divina, símbolo del consuelo y del poder humano, durante siglos la Virgen de Guadalupe ha sido reverenciada en el mundo entero. En esta colección, Ana Castillo ha reunido ensayos originales, escritos históricos, ficción,...