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    Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
    Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
    Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
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    Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories

    Written by Ana Castillo

    Narrated by Stacy Gonzalez

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     “Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

    “Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller.”—award-winning author Julia Alvarez

    Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.

    The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women’s rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path.

     As she considers moving to California to join La Causa, Mexican American activist Cesar Chavez’s movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmer workers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a plane ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says, tell her, her children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get Tina back to Chicago. But it won't be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well.

     Katia is but one of the voices introduced in this dazzling collection of short fiction from revered writer Ana Castillo. Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, the stories in Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home illuminate a chorus of people whose stories will leave you breathless.

    Editor's Note

    Secrets transform…

    The truth is both painful and freeing, as the protagonists in Castillo’s stories know all too well. This collection follows seven characters, primarily women, as the fallout of family secrets transforms their lives. In the titular story, Katia travels to Mexico City to find her mother and discovers a shocking truth that makes her question her beliefs. Mexico plays a strong role in each story, as does the immigrant experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 30, 2023
    ISBN9780063259447
    Author

    Ana Castillo

    Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator, and scholar. Born and raised in Chicago, her award winning, bestselling titles include the novels So Far from God, The Guardians, Peel My Love like an Onion, and Sapogonia, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the poetry collection I Ask the Impossible. She has received numerous awards, including the 2018 PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award, the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

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