American Chica
Femmes (biographies)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
In her father s Peruvian family Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady yet in her mother s American family she learned to shoot a gun break a horse and snap a chicken s… neck for dinner Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful beautifully realized portrait of a child who was a north-south collision a New World fusion An American Chica Here are two vastly different landscapes Peru--earthquake-prone charged with ghosts of history and mythology--and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana s historia to life her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs her dazzling grandmother clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage But most important are Arana s parents he a brilliant engineer she a gifted musician For more than half a century these two passionate strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and finally to prevail From the Trade Paperback edition