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Rosa
Contributor(s): de la Cuesta, Barbara (Author)
ISBN: 1942083831     ISBN-13: 9781942083832
Publisher: Brain Mill Press
OUR PRICE:   $12.56  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
Series: Driftless Unsolicited Novella
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.53 lbs) 202 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
 
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"There were little sins and big sins, and if you committed too many little sins you were more likely to go on to the big ones. Some sins you did in your mind and then, sometimes, you went on to let yourself fall into them."

Darkly witty and compulsively readable, Barbara de la Cuesta's novella lets us into the private life and secret thoughts of Rosa, an undocumented home health aide grappling with menopause and her unruly body, unexpected romance, grown children who alternately worry her and fill her with pride, and how life is confronting her with everything she has ever denied herself or hidden away from. Rosa is a natural storyteller, insightful in hindsight about her own motivations and unflinching in her willingness to look at the girl she was and the woman she has become. Rosa is a daring, funny, and emotional story about a woman moving her life out of the margins and into the sun with the power of confession.

Contributor Bio(s): de la Cuesta, Barbara: - Barbara de la Cuesta has one published novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Fiction Prize in 2007. A collection of her poems, Rosamundo, is published by Finishing Line Press (2017). In 2008, she received a fellowship to the Millay Colony, where she completed Rosa. She has also been past recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Rosa is part of a trilogy of novellas titled Adam's Chair.