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Informationen zum Autor Born and raised in Detroit, Lolita Hernandez is the author of Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Quiet Battles and snakecrossing . She is a 2012 Kresge Literary Arts fellow, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of literary publications. After over thirty-three years as a UAW worker at General Motors, she now teaches in the creative writing department in the University of Michigan Residential College. Klappentext In this distinctive collection, Lolita Hernandez presents stories of characters making their way in a strange world. She draws on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots to bring to life a hidden community of mothers, sons, daughters, friends, and neighbors who crave sun and saltwater, dance to calyspso music, and make callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. In addition to being a compelling and colorful read, Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how the spirit world stays close to the living. The daughter of parents from Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent, Lolita Hernandez gained a unique perspective on growing up in Detroit. In Making Callaloo in Detroit she weaves her memories of food, language, music and family into twelve stories of outsiders looking at a strange world, wondering how to fit in and making it through in their own way.
