Description
Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Ana Consuelo Matiella uses a unique brand of storytelling to reflect onher life and the lives of the women who influenced her. Each chapterdeftly explores both personal experience and examination of primalarchetypes in Hispanic femininity. Nevertheless, all women will recognizethe kind of unavoidable female power she presents that interactswith both psyche and soul. Matiella's deft wit illuminates their force,significance, as well as inspiration.
"I have named these personal memories, LIFE AMONG MY MOTHERS, in honor and in gratitude for all my mothers, lasmadrinas who shaped me and showed me the different waysone can be a woman. Some of these memories are imprintedfirmly and some of them elude me, but like my mother, I ama cuentera and whatever I didn't know, I made up." —Ana Consuelo Matiella
Author Bio
Ana Consuelo Matiella was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and raised in Ambos Nogales by a clan of Spaniards and Mexicans. Her fondest memories are of spending late Sonoran afternoons with her mothers, tías and madrinas, drinking café con leche, listening to their stories and trying to make sense of the world. Ana Consuelo is a fotonovela producer and health communications consultant. Her first book was The Truth About Alicia and Other Stories, a Camino del Sol book published by the University of Arizona Press. She divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon.
Author City: Portland, OR USA