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From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, CherrÃe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.
Native Country of the Heart A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter, CherrÃe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.
As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey―from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s―she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss.
Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.
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"Native Country of the Heart by CherrÃe L. Moraga is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early April.
Despite its seemingly wishy-washy title (this is from someone who just read a book called A Song for the Stars, mind), opening this book and poring over it was like visiting and being around my maternal grandparents, as well as reading the book Borderlands by Gloria E. Anzaldúa in college. However, this is a memoir shared between the author and her mother Elvira, both in the border area between California & Mexico and in South Pasadena & L.A. And, oi, it really rang true to me when Moraga described a kind of DNA denial of being distantly related to Mexican slavery and poring over the shade of your skin to cue you into being Mayan or Aztec royalty, rather than subservience, figuring out gossip & held grudges by mentally translating the mix of Spanish and English that her mother speaks (I’m totally with ya there, sister), and believing she is committing flagrant sin against the Catholic Church by having impure thought of being anything but heteronormative."
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Native Country of the Heart A Memoir CherrÃe Moraga 9780374219666 Books Reviews
- Native Country of the Heart by CherrÃe L. Moraga is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early April.
Despite its seemingly wishy-washy title (this is from someone who just read a book called A Song for the Stars, mind), opening this book and poring over it was like visiting and being around my maternal grandparents, as well as reading the book Borderlands by Gloria E. Anzaldúa in college. However, this is a memoir shared between the author and her mother Elvira, both in the border area between California & Mexico and in South Pasadena & L.A. And, oi, it really rang true to me when Moraga described a kind of DNA denial of being distantly related to Mexican slavery and poring over the shade of your skin to cue you into being Mayan or Aztec royalty, rather than subservience, figuring out gossip & held grudges by mentally translating the mix of Spanish and English that her mother speaks (I’m totally with ya there, sister), and believing she is committing flagrant sin against the Catholic Church by having impure thought of being anything but heteronormative. - A memoir mostly pertaining to her mother, but Moraga interspersed some of her life in it as well. It was very interesting to read the span of her mother's life and snippets from her father's family. Most of the book is devoted to her mother's eventual decline and struggles with Alzheimer's and how it impacted the entire family. It's a touching telling of a woman whose life spanned many decades and who grapples with just the daily task of living. Thanks to NetGalley for the early read.
