| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Aguanile; Now We Will Be Happy; Bodega; Muñeca; How to Make Flan; Only Son; A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns; The Luckiest Man in the World; Remembering; The Last Hurricane; Palabras; About Amina Gautier; Series List |
| Summary |
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier's characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn't seen since childhood; a |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, Puerto Rican.
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Biculturalism -- Fiction
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Families -- Fiction
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Puerto Ricans -- Fiction
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Biculturalism
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Families
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Puerto Ricans
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Short stories, Puerto Rican
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803256910 |
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0803256914 |
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