...After...

by Carolina Rivera Escamilla

Overview

Carolina Rivera Escamilla's collection of short stories, entitled ...after... chronicles a girl's coming of age in turbulent times. Dalia's life unfolds within the context of her family and community before and during the civil war in El Salvador. Dalia, the primary narrator, is the camera through which the reader relives scene by scene her youthful experience and contemplations on life's often terrifying meaning. How can her relationships live long enough to get past a world that is falling apart? Will there ever be an …after…in which to live?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164621803
Publisher:	Carolina Rivera Escamilla
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	347 KB

About the Author

“Carolina Rivera Escamilla is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and educator. Born in El Salvador, she was granted political asylum in Canada in 1985. Four years later, as the Berlin Wall fell and the guerillas of El Salvador made their final offensive, Carolina joined the massive migration of Salvadoran refugees from civil war and eventually landed in Los Angeles where she could be more involved with the culture and politics of her community. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing at University of California, Los Angeles. A Fellow in the PEN America Emerging Voices Program. She has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo, Anthology. Collateral Damage “Women Who Write About War” Anthology, University of Virginia Press, among others and is the writer, director, and producer of the documentary: Manlio Argueta, Poets and Volcanoes.