{"product_id":"native-country-of-the-heart-9781250251176","title":"Native Country of the Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis memoir''s beauty is in its fierce intimacy. --Roy Hoffman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e''s Most Anticipated Books of 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the celebrated editor of \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back\u003c\/i\u003e, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNative Country of the Heart: A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemoir\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528925159767,"sku":"9781250251176","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250251176.jpg?v=1731873571","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/native-country-of-the-heart-9781250251176","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}