Ana Castillo

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction A lyrical memoir-in-essays by an award-winning Chicana writer: "the real power of Black Dove comes when it speaks to what mothers face raising black and brown children all across this nation." (Los Angeles Review...

"Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant--she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world."--Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage"Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller."--award-winning author Julia AlvarezLiterary legend Ana Castillo explores the...

"Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant--she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world."--Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage"Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller."--award-winning author Julia AlvarezLiterary legend Ana Castillo explores the...

A forty-three-year-old Latina stumbles her way to spiritual self-rescue through sexual adventures and small-time hustles.Author: Ana CastilloISBN-10: 1558618503ISBN-13: 9781558618503Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.63w x 0.63dAward: Lambda Literary Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/10/2014 pg. 65Booklist 04/01/2014 pg....

Goddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms...

An Anchor Books Original Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as "una storyteller de primera," and by Barbara Kingsolver in The Los Angeles Times as "impossible to resist," returns to her first love--poetry--to reveal an unwavering...

From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad configurations. Infectiously moody and murderously comic, Castillo chronicles the rapturous beginnings, melancholy middles, and bittersweet...

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and...

Author: Ana CastilloISBN-10: 0826363199ISBN-13: 9780826363190Publisher: High Road BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2021Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.70h x 7.70w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 17Foreword 08/26/2021

Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was...

A New York Times Notable Book - "A complex, engaging novel...Sapogonia will establish Castillo as one of our finest Chicana novelists." --Rudolfo Anaya The author of So Far From God, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed...

In Tome, a small, seemingly sleepy New Mexico hamlet, Sofia and her four fated daughters reveal a world of marvels where the comic and horrific, past and present, real and fantastic coexist and collide.Over two crowded decades, Sofia tries to hold things together following...

From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, T a Regina is also raising her teenage nephew,...

"A wonderful, wonderful book." --Maxine Hong Kingston Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cort痙ar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship....