Now We Will Be Happy

Informationen zum Autor Amina Gautier teaches in the department of English at the University of Miami. She is a winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Southern Review. Klappentext Amina Gautier teaches in the department of English at the University of Miami. She is a winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Southern Review. Zusammenfassung Presents a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, US-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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsAguanileNow We Will Be HappyBodegaMuñecaHow to Make FlanOnly SonA Wish, Like a Candle, BurnsThe Luckiest Man in the WorldRememberingThe Last HurricanePalabras

Product details

• Authors: Amina Gautier
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780803255395
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-5539-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schoo; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature