My Mother's Funeral

My Mother's Funeral circles around the death of the author's mother, but what also emerges is a landscape of personal loss and pain, of innocence, humor, violence and beauty. Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and Colombian heritage, Páramo describes the volatile bond linking...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paramo, Adriana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fort Lee, NJ : Cavankerry, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Páramo, Adriana, > 1966-
Páramo, Adriana, > 1966- > Family.
Mothers and daughters.
Families.
Colombians.
Colombian Americans.
Meres et filles > Colombie > Biographies.
Mothers and daughters > Colombia > Biography.
Colombian Americans > Colombia > Biography.
Colombians > Biography.
Colombia.
Colombia > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prologue; Part I; Opal and Topaz #1; Rigor Mortis; Skeletons; Part II; Opal and Topaz #2; The Wake; Mariquita; Radios; Part III; Opal and Topaz #3; Requiem Mass; La Petite Mort at Thirteen; A Commie à la Colombiana; Part IV; Opal and Topaz #4; The Crematorium; Napoleon's White Horse; Part V; Home One Last Time; Leech; Epilogue (Ossuary); Acknowledgments.

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