Synopses & Reviews
Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. As she checks out her other options, her sexual obsession with her cous' ignites but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant for adventure. Give It to Me is Sex in the City for a Chicana babe who's looking for love in all the wrong places.
Ana Castillo is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Chicana literature. She is the author of So Far From God and Sapogonia, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, as well as The Guardians, Peel
Review
"In Ana Castillos edgy new novel
Give It to Me, no-holds barred Palma Piedras, lone satellite orbiting in space, crash-lands on everybodys heart. Palmas escapadeserotic, sexy, comic and, by the end, devastating and poignantillustrate how those who fling themselves onto love and desire are the same people who, at one time or another, must flee from it. An evocative page-turner."
Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy, Memories of a Chicano MariposaReview
"In this gritty and entertaining novel, Ana Castillo paints a captivating portrait of a future that defies odds, questions stereotypes, and always maintains a sense of humor."
Elena Poniatowka, author of Massacre in Mexico
Cheeky, amoral, and a gritty survivor, Palma Piedras is a picaresque heroine for the 21st century. With an unflinching satirical flare, Castillo creates a vivid cast of rogues and helpless characters who alarmingly resemble people we know.”
Jaime Manrique, author of Cervantes Street
The novel is one-half sexual adventure, and one-half poignant search for love and meaning that are always found within. Palma is feisty and uninhibited, and unblinkingly realistic about herself and the world.”
Patricia Crisafulli for Huffington Post Blog
"In Ana Castillos edgy new novel Give It to Me, no-holds barred Palma Piedras, lone satellite orbiting in space, crash-lands on everybodys heart. Palmas escapadeserotic, sexy, comic and, by the end, devastating and poignantillustrate how those who fling themselves onto love and desire are the same people who, at one time or another, must flee from it. An evocative page-turner."
Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy, Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Through deadpan humor, impulsive characters, and a romp across America, Castillos absorbing novel is a search for twenty-first-century identity at a time when we find that very notion at its most unstable.”
Tony Valenzuela, executive director of the Lambda Literary Foundation
In her new novel, Give It To Me, Castillo delivers a story that is both tawdry and transcendent. The sense of contemporary rootlessness chafes against deeply rooted Mexican-American culture creating a raw friction unlike any other story out there.”
Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories
Give It To Me gives us a post-9/11, post-Bush, fast-talking, fast-walking multicultural, multiracial, multisexual panoply of characters...I thought I would die laughing.”
Cheryl Clarke, author of The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005
The novel, released last month, is a brave exploration of uninhibited feminine sexuality at least on the surface. But it's also, in many ways, a great American novel, an examination of family, class issues and the search for happiness.”
Las Cruces Sun-News
Full of drama and gossip (because who doesnt love chisme), this is a must-read for any chica in the process of finding her true self.”
Krystyna Chávez for Cosmopolitan
Palma Piedras, 43 and divorced, tries on lovers of both sexes like a woman grabbing stilettos at a sample sale. Shes a Latina Moll Flanders, cheeky and passionate, clawing her way up from some very mean streets. Raw, funny and real.”
Marcia Menter for More
Synopsis
A forty-three-year-old Latina stumbles her way to spiritual self-rescue through sexual adventures and small-time hustles.
About the Author
Ana Castillo is the author of So Far From God, and Sapogonia, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, as well as The Guardians, Peel My Love like an Onion, and many other books of fiction, poetry, and essays. She divides her time between Chicago and Albuquerque.