| The Flower in the Skull Contributor(s): Alcala, Kathleen (Author), Alcala (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156006340 ISBN-13: 9780156006347 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $12.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1999 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Deep in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico in the 1870s, a village of Opata Indians is attacked by soldiers. Along with the rest of her tribe, Concha is driven from her homeland and must find a way to survive in a strange world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-56462 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.22" W x 7.85" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Geographic Orientation - California - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Deep in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico in the 1870s, a village of Opata Indians is attacked by soldiers. Along with the rest of her tribe, Concha is driven from her homeland and eventually finds her way to Tucson, where she finds a job cleaning houses and caring for children. When her own daughter, Rosa, is born, the legacy of Concha's dislocation continues, as Rosa is raised far from her native culture and struggles to find her place in a strange world. As she did in her acclaimed, award-winning novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, Kathleen Alcala takes on the complexities of cultural heritage, identity, and assimilation, and explores the mysterious nature of place, spiritualism, and faith in the lives of these extraordinary ordinary people. |