Castillo, Ana

The mixquiahuala letters / Ana Castillo - New York : Doubleday , 1992, c1986 - 138 p. ; 21 cm

Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, Is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict.


English

American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation

9780385420136


Letters ----Fiction
Relationships----Fiction
Female friendship----Fiction

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