Memory Mambo

by Achy Obejas

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Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile--from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality--and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its show more depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home. show less

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Achy Obejas
18+ Works 761 Members

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Memory Mambo

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, LGBTQ+
DDC/MDS
813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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PS3565 .B34 .M4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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English
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Paper, Ebook
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