African Passions & Other Stories

by Beatriz Rivera

Overview

A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love and success as they move in and out of the reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them: a frustrated professional woman who unsuccessfully strives for a wedding ring from her mama’s-boy lover, a recent college graduate applies for dead-end jobs while pursuing a traditional macho lover, an Italian-Puerto Rican princess gets caught up in a vicious cycle of destructive relationships, and a young Cuban matron wrecks husband, children, and her own well-being as she seeks the nirvana of material wealth and status.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781518502354
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	04/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	206 KB

About the Author

BEATRIZ RIVERA specializes in creating Latina characters who attempt to reconcile their heritage and existence within the greater construct of American society. She is the author of four novels and a short-story collection: When a Tree Falls (Arte Público Press, 2010), Do not Pass Go (Arte Público Press, 2006), Playing with Light (2000), Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express (1997), and African Passions and Other Stories (1995). Rivera’s Latinas deal with questions of identity and tradition in a startlingly funny yet thought-provoking way. She received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in Spanish Literature and currently teaches at Penn State University Worthington Scranton.