Author: Cecilia Caballero File Type: pdf The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities within and outside academia. The volume is organized in four parts (1) separation, migration, state violence, and detention (2) ChicanaLatinaWOC mother-activists (3) intergenerational mothering and (4) loss, reproductive justice, and holistic pregnancy. Contributors offer a just framework for Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies to thrive within and outside of the academy. They describe a new interpretation of motherwork that addresses the layers of care work needed for collective resistance to structural oppression and inequality. This anthology is a call to action for justice. Contributions are both theoretical and epistemological, and they offer an understanding of motherwork through Chicana and Women of Color experiences. **

Author: Hannah Pittard File Type: epub Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys shes left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindells story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her.Told in haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittards beautifully crafted novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister Nora left behind, the other families in their leafy suburban enclave, and the individual fates of the boys in her thrall. Far more eager to imagine Noras fate than to scrutinize their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl--and a life--that no longer exists, except in the imagination.A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves--of who we once were and may someday become. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Pittard leads the reader into a slew of possibilities spinning out from a 16-year-old girls disappearance, in her intriguing, beguiling debut. After Nora Lindell goes missing on Halloween, stories about her disappearance multiply she got into a car with an unknown man, she was seen at the airport, she simply walked away, she was abducted. Pittard dips into the points-of-view of various classmates to explore these possibilities and more. Perhaps Nora was murdered. One theory sends her to Arizona, where she raises twin daughters with a lover named Mundo, and another path leads her to a near-death experience in a cafe bombing in India. The story also outlines effects of the disappearance on Noras family and classmates, who, even as they graduate, marry, and have children, never quite let go of Norapossibly to avoid their own lives. Though the truth about Nora remains tantalizingly elusivethe reader is never quite sure what happenedthe many possibilities are so captivating, and Pittards prose so eloquent, that theres a far richer experience to be had in the chain of maybes and what-ifs than in nailing down the truth. (Feb.) (c) PWxyz, LLC. From BooklistLauded short story author Pittards carefully plotted first novel, centered on the aftermath of a 16-year-old girls disappearance, is interestingly told from the first-person plural point of view of the boys she left behind. Now grown men with wives and families, they have, for the most part, remained in the sleepy, unnamed mid-Atlantic town of their youth. With the imagination of their awkward, sheepish teenage selves, the books narrators, at once interchangeable and completely singular, imagine what has happened to Nora Lindell in the 30 or so years since she vanished. In endlessly revealing their elaborate conjectures, the boys-turned-men inadvertently tell their own story, which is, not surprisingly, the only place where Pittard draws any real conclusions in her quiet, satisfying tale. Of Nora we learn one thing for certain, that her disappearance continues to reverberate in the hearts and minds of those teenage boys she left behind, and that losing her and everything she represented placed a sad coda on every thought theyve had since. --Annie Bostrom