Description
by
Ana Castillo (Author)
Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo’s hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family.
“Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness and verve.”–Washington Post Book World
Author Biography
Ana Castillo is the author of the novels
The Mixquiahuala Letters, Sapogonia, So Far From God, and a collection of poetry,
My Father was a Toltec and Selected Poems. She has received an American Book Award, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. Castillo lives in Chicago with her son, Marcel.
Number of Pages: 304Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.02 x 5.32 INPublication Date: September 01, 1999Accelerated Reader:Quiz Name: So Far from GodInterest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12Reading Level: 7.4Point Value: 13
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