Eat the mouth that feeds you
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San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2021].
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126 pages ; 21 cm
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Moab Library - Adult Fiction Book
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Published
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2021].
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"This stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines, absent or abusive fathers, and the effects of historical violence, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with an authentic, sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family's beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border"--

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Fragoza, C. (2021). Eat the mouth that feeds you . City Lights Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Fragoza, Carribean. 2021. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You. City Lights Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Fragoza, Carribean. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You City Lights Books, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Fragoza, Carribean. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You City Lights Books, 2021.

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