Lara Rios (1)
Autore di Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps
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Lara Rios (1) ha come alias Julia Amante.
Opere di Lara Rios
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Julia Amante.
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Amante, Julia
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Fernando, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Highland, California, USA - Istruzione
- California State University, San Bernardino (MFA)
University of California, Riverside (BA)
Long Beach City College - Organizzazioni
- Romance Writers of America
- Breve biografia
- Lara Rios had the misfortune of growing up away fromthe extended family that is so valued in the Latin culture, but missed out on very little of what it means to be Argentine. Asados were sacred mealsshared together on weekends. Lara lives in California with her husband, son, daughter, and one pampered dachshund. When she's not writing she enjoys challenging herself physically.
Utenti
Recensioni
I made it through the fist chapter and wanted to throw this book across the room ( ok I did throw it across the room). The main charachter is so not believable and I just wanted to slap the her. Too bad I lost the receipt.
This started out rather weird. I couldn't buy this seemingly smart and successful woman being dumb enough to do some of the things she did. It did get better, thankfully, and I found myself really liking this book.
Marcela finds out that she's half white, the result of an affair her mother had. Add to that her family's assertions that she's a sell-out, and not Mexican enough, and she's questioning her identity. So she, with the help of her best friend, makes a list of 10 steps that will help her discover her inner Latina and in the process find her self and get her family off her back. Really good story about a journey of self-discovery.
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 65
- Popolarità
- #261,994
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
- Lingue
- 2
It's not easy. All she wants is to keep her head down, finish school, and get out. But when she helps a fellow student after a mugging, it leads to an article in the school paper making her sound like a heroine and an All-American success story--Bad Girl from the Barrio Makes Good--giving her celebrity and leading people to view her as a type, not a person. To top it off, her professor wants her to write her thesis on Americanization, so she's thinking about what it means to be American.
The story follows Lupe as she escapes her brother; moves in with Nash, The Vibe's director, who she's had a crush on for years; starts to date Will, the student who wrote the article; and has to make a choice between a great job and finishing school.
It's full of emotional ups and downs, gritty realism, love, heartbreak, acceptance, and betrayal. I shared her pain at the decision to leave her family; and I shared her dilemmas of Nash or Will, school or the job. Through it all, however, what Lupe wants is what we all want: to be accepted as ourselves. She made some mistakes and some good choices, and ultimately, everything turned out for the best.
Normally, I complain about epilogues. Not this time. This epilogue was the end of the story--it wouldn't have been finished without it. There's an exception to every rule.
I thoroughly enjoyed Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps, but I liked Becoming Americana even better. Because Lupe's past is darker, the story is darker, but it's also full of life and hope.… (altro)