Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity
    Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity
    Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity
    Ebook92 pages32 minutes

    Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity

    By Lori Marie Carlson, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz and Flavio Morais

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    WANTING TO BELONG. WANTING TO GO HOME. LOVE. REGRET. FAMILY LEGENDS. DREAMS. REVENGE. ENGLISH. SPANISH.
    This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most respected Latino authors writing today, including Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gary Soto. Their fictional narratives give voice to what it's like to be a Latino teen in America. These voices are yearning. These voices are angry. These voices are, above all else, hopeful. These voices are America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateAug 26, 2008
    ISBN9781416984450
    Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity

    Related to Voices in First Person

    Related ebooks

    Young Adult For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    Related categories

    Reviews for Voices in First Person

    4/5

    6 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Voices in First Person - Lori Marie Carlson

      VOICES IN FIRST PERSON

      Atheneu m Books for Young Readers

      An imprint of Simon & Schuster

      Children’s Publishing Division

      1230 Avenue of the Americas,

      New York, New York 10020

      This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Photographs copyright © 2008 by Manuel Rivera-Ortiz

      Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Flavio Morais

      All rights reserved, including the right of

      reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Voices in first person: reflections on Latino identity /

      edited by Lori Marie Carlson.—1st ed.

      p. cm.

      Summary: A collection of brief stories, poems, and reminiscences about the experiences of Latinos in the United States, by such writers as Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Oscar Hijuelos, and others.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-8445-0

      ISBN-10: 1-4169-8445-3

      1. Hispanic Americans—Literary collections. [1. Hispanic Americans—Literary collections.] I. Carlson, Lori M.

      PZ5.V76 2008

      [Fic]—dc22

      2006034161

      Visit us on the World Wide Web:

      http://www.SimonSays.com

      For my young friend Azula Carmen Wilson, and in memory of William Sloane Coffin, Jr., prophet, leader, teacher

      —L.M.C.

      acknowledgments

      I wish to acknowledge the following individuals who, in 2005 and 2006, as I was finishing this book, helped to sustain me through much loss. First my husband, Oscar, and my parents, Robert and Marie; sister Leigh Ann and brother-in-law Larry; my agent, Jennifer Lyons; my editor, Caitlyn Dlouhy; and last, but certainly not least, champions Karen Levinson, Allen Brill, and Ashley Normand. In my midst, too, were caring friends and neighbors: Carol and Jeffrey, Lou and Laurie, Jenny and Jamie, Roger, Meg and Mark, David and Sue, Jonathan, Monroe, Edith, Shirley, Barbara and Jim, and Marilyn. And farther afield, in other states and countries, were friends whose prayers and kindness reminded me to look for beauty: Marjorie and John, Ylva, Constanza, and Pina. Thank you all. For your humanity.

      a note on the texts

      Some of the monologues in this collection ignore correct spelling and diacritical usage. Rather than altering such instances—so as to make these particular monologues conform to standard written English and Spanish—I have chosen to respect the authors’ artistic license and creative grammar and punctuation. It is my wish to emphasize the liveliness and whimsy of the spoken word so that the underlying rhythm and freedom of the authors’ syntax comes through loud and clear.

      Contents

      Editor’s Note

      Ritual

      by Claudia Quiroz Cahill

      Reclaim Your Rights as a Citizen of Here, Here

      by Michele Serros

      Spending Money

      by Gary Soto

      I Stand at the Crosswalk

      by Esmeralda Santiago

      Angel’s Monologue

      by Gwylym Cano

      José

      by Caridad de la Luz

      The Evil Eye

      by Raquel Valle Sentíes

      Poultrymorphosis

      by Oscar Hijuelos

      Last Week I Wanted to Die

      by Susan Guevara

      I’m Mad at My Father

      by Trinidad Sánchez Jr.

      Translating Things

      by Marjorie Agosín

      Mujeriego

      by Michael Mejias

      Birth

      by Walkiris Portes

      Me American

      by Jesse Villegas

      My First American Summer

      by Lissette Mendez

      God Smells Like a Roast Pig

      by Melinda Lopez

      Oh, Beautiful?

      by René Pedraza del Prado

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1