Description: 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. This groundbreaking debut novel received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict.
Brief description: Ana Castillo is a celebrated and distinguished poet, writer, editor, playwright, translator, and visual artist. Her accolades include the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and PEN Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received a Lambda in fiction and nonfiction, NEA fellowships in fiction and poetry, and an American Book Award. She is the bestselling author of So Far from God and Sapogonia, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.