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This memoir''s beauty is in its fierce intimacy. --Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

One of Literary Hub''s Most Anticipated Books of 2019

From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.

As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguo

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9781250251176, 978-1250251176
      ISBN10: 1250251176

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This memoir''s beauty is in its fierce intimacy. --Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

      One of Literary Hub''s Most Anticipated Books of 2019

      From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.

      Native Country of the Heart: A       Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.

      As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguo

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