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008 030221s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2003004006
020 $a0374205094 (hc : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm51773851
035 $a(NNC)4219456
035 $a4219456
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dOrLoB-B
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050 00 $aPS3565.R7737$bM43 2003
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aCofer, Judith Ortiz,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87943894
245 14 $aThe meaning of consuelo /$cJudith Ortiz Cofer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,$c2003.
300 $a185 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In this novel, we follow a Puerto Rican girl's quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture. Coming of age in the 1950s, when American influence threatens to dilute the island's traditional Spanish customs, as well as to harm, perhaps irreparably, its fragile ecology, Consuelo watches her family being torn assunder - much like the island itself. Her father believes the future lies in American technology, including the new autopista that will soon cut the island in two. But Consuelo has heard her abuela say that once foreign noise drowns out the song of the coqui, the island's emblematic tree frog, the voices of puertorriquenos themselves will be silenced." "Meanwhile, Consuelo confronts her own transformation. For something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing like a tumor at its core. It is Consuelo who first notices her younger sister Mili's vivaciousness turn into mysterious bouts of hysteria, her playful, invented language shift into an incomprehensible and chilling "language of birds." Ultimately it is Consuelo who must choose: Will she fulfill the expectations of her family, offering consolation as their tragedy unfolds? Or will she, like Maria Sereno, risk becoming la fulana, the outsider, in her journey toward a definition of herself as a Puerto Rican woman different from her mother and her grandmother?"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106913
651 0 $aPuerto Rico$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107006
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2003004006.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS3565.R7737$iM43 2003