Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers

by Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow

Book Overview

A marvelous anthology from the editors of Las Christmas--the bestselling author of When I Was Puerto Rican and the founder of L.A. Weekly--in which our most acclaimed Latino authors share... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375408797
• ISBN13: 9780375408793
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Most read

What can I say? Excellent book! Very interesting. You most buy it if you want to know more about these Mamis - Mothers of different Latinamerican writters are the inspiration in a way or another in their lives. Touching stories about reality with different backgrounds with one purpose: to show us how our Mamis influence in our lives. Beautiful stories put together.

Moms have eyes in the back of their heads!

I LOVED this book! It has some great short stories from a variety of authors. Very tasty! Each story has its own flavor, and this makes for a great literary soup. It reaches across cultural boundaries to touch hearts and souls of us all. Seriously great reading! Marta Lomeli, author Cuentos From the House on West Connecticut Avenue

Exceptional, poetic and moving

One has to bear in mind that writing about people one knows is very subjective, and this is the author's right. People simply are not objective about those close to them. The writers of this book have accomplished a creation that has resulted in a beautiful specimen of literature, rich in description and sentiment, both amusing and tragic. How can one not laugh when Jaime Manrique quotes the only comment his mother makes after she sees her son's pictures in a magazine spread for the first time: " You look fat, You'd better lay off those pies" and how can one not cry when he writes "The most wonderful tribute I can pay to my mother is to say that whereas most children automatically love their mothers, I've grown to love Soledad." But these quotes don't mean much without reading all that precedes them. And then, who will ever forget, once read, Alba Ambert's haunting search for a mother she has never known and how she consciously forms a life for herself based on this lack of knowledge?If you are looking for straight storytelling, you will find it here, but you will also find great sentiment and poetry within these pages. That in itself is worth the read. One no longer cares as one reads along if it is true or not; it still touches the soul.

A wonderful and diverse cross-section of Latino culture.

Esmeralda Santiago edits Las Mamis, a powerful gathering of Latino authors who recall their mothers. The fourteen women portray a cross-section of Latino culture and economic backgrounds in this loving memoir of influential parents. Diane C. Donovan Reviewer

Touching Stories

I read this at a Barnes & Noble store. I had a hard time putting it down. I believe that most of us (hispanic women) can relate to the stories told.