Review of 'The milk of almonds' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
my mistake was reading this in English and not the original Spanish
Paperback, 346 pages
English language
Published July 2, 2002 by Feminist Press.
Cristina Rivera Garza: The Milk of Almonds (Paperback, 2002, Feminist Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55861-435-2
- OCLC Number:
- 49566291
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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
- Women Authors
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Italian American women
- Literature: Classics
- Italian American authors
- American literature
- Italian Americans
- Literary collections