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Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? (Chicana Matters)by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Barbara Renaud Gonzalez's contribution to the works on Mexican immigration that in recent years have dominated Chicano literature could have been subtitled "Yearnings." Each of her characters longs for an elusive something, whether romance, a patrimony, a decent living or "home"; each is convinced the dream can be found across the border or across the state line." Mary Helen Ponce, Ms. Magazine (read the entire Ms. Magazine review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the heart of the person left behind. The swallow in this story is Amada Garcia, a young Mexican woman in a brutal marriage, who makes a heart-wrenching decision — to leave her young daughter behind in Mexico as she escapes to el Norte searching for love, which she believes must reside in the country of freedom. However, she falls in love with the man who brings her to the Texas border, and the memories of those three passionate days forever sustain and define her journey in Texas. She meets and marries Lazaro Mistral, who is on his own journey — to reclaim the land his family lost after the U.S.-Mexican War. Their opposing narratives about love and war become the legacy of their first-born daughter, Lucero, who must reconcile their stories into her struggle to find home, as her mother, Amada, finally discovers the country where love beats its infinite wings.
About the AuthorBarbara Renaud Gonzalez, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us the first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post-World War II Texas. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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