Like a Bride and Like a Mother

by Rosa Nissán

Book Overview

These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness.

This quest begins in Oshinica's childhood: at about age ten she's taken from the public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826323642
• ISBN13: 9780826323644
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"