Description: "Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodrâiguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tâias and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world-and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tâia loca who is shunned for defying gender roles. The pretty prima put on a pedestal for her European features. The matriarch who is the core of her community but hides all her pain. In Tâias and Primas, the follow-up to her acclaimed debut For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, Mojica Rodrâiguez explores these archetypes. Fearlessly grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma, centuries of colonization, and sexism, she attempts to heal the pain that is so often embodied in female family lines. Tâias and Primas is a deeply felt love letter to family, community, and Latinas everywhere"--
Review Quotes: "Tías and Primas is an artful examination of the women, and systems, that shape our lives. Through an expansive blend of genres, from memoir to social theory, Mojica Rodríguez crafts a compassionate guide for better understanding our loved ones, chosen and biological. This book traverses many realms--from ghosts to respectability politics to MLMs--without ever losing sight of the rich inner lives of the tías and primas at its core. Sharp-toothed and compassionate, Mojica Rodríguez exposes our societal shortcomings, while always insisting that better, healthier, and more equitable connections are possible. A book I will gift again and again."
--Ruben Reyes Jr., author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven