04581cam a2200445 4500 233383472 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307764591 0307764591 B00413QAR4 Amazon afa7d847-0673-466d-8e0c-ddff785b3d2d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 460660 OverDrive (Product ID) 4535 460660 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Arana, Marie. American Chica [Libby eBook] : Two Worlds, One Childhood. Random House Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2084kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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 <b>American Chica</b>."<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>. HTML:"Part history, part family memoir ... <b>American Chica</b> reads like a collaboration between John Cheever and Isabel Allende.... One of the many reasons the reader can't put this memoir down is the author's impressive command of her craft.... Arana has left her own imprint on her material, while at the same time displaying virtuosity in the storyteller's traditional gifts: spareness, clarity, and a passion for allegory.". HTML:<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>. HTML:"<b>American Chica</b> is a fascinating blend of autobiography and soap opera, memoir and meditation. ... full of larger-than-life characters and stranger-than-fiction situations. ... delightful.". HTML:<i>Washington Post</i>. "Arana's intimate and intelligent memoir captures exactly the pulse of a changing America. ...[C]learly demonstrates her ability to write crystalline prose and make erudite cultural observations.". HTML:<i>Library Journal</i>. HTML:<p>"Lush, mystical ... a memoir that blends family <i>historia</i> and the puzzling deadly politics of Peru."</p>. HTML:<i>USA Today</i>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=afa7d847-0673-466d-8e0c-ddff785b3d2d http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)