Review of 'The milk of almonds' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
my mistake was reading this in English and not the original Spanish
Hardcover, 346 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2002 by Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
3 stars
(1 review)
"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--
Subjects
- American literature -- Italian American authors.
- Italian American women -- Literary collections.
- Italian Americans -- Literary collections.
- American literature -- Women authors.
- Gastronomy -- Literary collections.
- Italian Americans -- Civilization.
- Food -- Literary collections.
- Gastronomy.
- Food.