The work offers a complex portrait of negotiated identities, and, despite its ending on a moralizing note, a modern audience will find it delightfully subversive."—Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University"This highly readable translation is sure to become a required text in surveys of Latin American or hemispheric American literature in translation and in first-year seminars on literary and cultural studies topics."—Ronald Briggs, Barnard College

The work offers a complex portrait of negotiated identities, and, despite its ending on a moralizing note, a modern audience will find it delightfully subversive."—Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University"This highly readable translation is sure to become a required text in surveys of Latin American or hemispheric American literature in translation and in first-year seminars on literary and cultural studies topics."—Ronald Briggs, Barnard College

The work offers a complex portrait of negotiated identities, and, despite its ending on a moralizing note, a modern audience will find it delightfully subversive."—Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University"This highly readable translation is sure to become a required text in surveys of Latin American or hemispheric American literature in translation and in first-year seminars on literary and cultural studies topics."—Ronald Briggs, Barnard College