Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between

by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Winner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Autobiography/Memoir category)

With its roots in the Spanish verb querer--"to want, to love"--the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging, that which we yearn for when we yearn for home. In this striking essay collection, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher shows that querencia is also a state of being: the peace that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814258174
• ISBN13: 9780814258170
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Mad Creek Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"