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In this magnificent debut novel, filled with graceful prose and searing detail, Loida Maritza Pérez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family—and home. Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home weaves a vivid, gripping story about a family in crisis. The novel is significant in that it enhances many of the issues brought forth by the work of other, more well-known Latina writers like Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros. Exploring issues of cultural dislocation, familial responsibility, sexual. From time to time, a writer bursts on to the scene with a compelling novel of such extraordinary power, maturity, and insight that it leaves an indelible mark. Such is the case with Loida Maritza Pé rez, whose luminous storytelling will captivate you even as it breaks your heart. Iliana believed that by attending a college more than five hours from New York City, she could gain independence.
By Loida Maritza Pérez. Viking, $ he walls are literally catching fire in ''Geographies of Home,'' Loida Maritza Pérez's vivid first novel about a family in crisis. For Iliana's Dominican parents, who are eking out an existence in a dilapidated Brooklyn town house, the troubles seem insurmountable. One daughter, Marina, is a rape victim. Loida Maritza Pérez is a Dominican-born, New York -based writer whose only novel, Geographies of Home, has continually gained attention for its harrowing use of sexual and physical violence. Pérez’s violent literary aesthetic exposes a family’s fear-induced immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and the broken family dynamic which ensues after relocation. Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Pérez was rhapsodically, mystical and contemporarily written. It played with framing stories that traveled in time. It was filled with rhapsodic metaphoric language and delicately infused with advanced vocabulary within prose.
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