Island of Bones Essays

Name: Island of Bones Essays
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ISBN: 9780803271425

ISBN-10: 0803271425

ISBN-13: 9780803271425

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joy Castro

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What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the neighborhood. This was just the beginning of Joy Castro’s unmoored life of searching and striving that she’s turned to account with literary alchemy inIsland of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detailed perspective on a uniquely troubled young life that reflects on the larger questions each of us…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.396



Island of Bones


What My Mother Told Me When I Found Her


Clips of My Fatherï¿½s House


Turn of Faith


Getting Lost


In Theory


Farm Use


Hip Joints


No Mï¿½s Monkey


Edging


Fitting


The Athens of the Midwest


You Can Avoid the Mistakes I Made


An Angle of Vision


Grip


Getting "Grip"


Hungry


On Becoming Educated


Vesper Adest


"ï¿½Quiï¿½n es ese Jimmy Choo?": A Latina Mother Comes of Age


Gratitude


Source Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography