Of Two Minds
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595356974 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Sylvia Madrigal lives in Newport, Rhode Island, with her partner, her parrot, and her two cockatiels. She was born on the border between Texas and Mexico and educated at Yale. She is dead serious about her tennis and her writing
But can she?A wry, irreverent, warmhearted tale of self-discovery, Of Two Minds is a coming-of-age story about profound cultural shock, about unrequited love finally requited, and about fighting to become whole after a lifetime of living in incompatible worlds."Lyrical poetic authentic precise lush vivid beautifully written a pleasure to read."-Participants of Voices of our Nation Arts Foundation/Voices Writing Workshops"A page-turner."-The author's brother, Ricardo. At Yale, the discovery that she is in love with a woman sends her into a vortex of self-doubt that fragments her worlds even further. What happens when a seventeen-year-old Chicana from South Texas is dropped into the rarefied ambience of an Ivy League institution?Emily Díaz has spent her whole life in two worlds. In Boston, she must face the divide between her outward heterosexual world and her internal emotional desires. As a child of Mexican parents i
. She is dead serious about her tennis and her writing. She was born on the border between Texas and Mexico and educated at Yale. Sylvia Madrigal lives in Newport, Rhode Island, with her partner, her parrot, and her two cockatiels
Fabulosa Jim Morris I just finished this wonderful and brilliant novel. The writing was superb, and the story was both original and accessible. But what made it great was the passion, which was laser-like in its clarity and intensity. I did not so much read this book as inhale it. Madrigal has written love scenes that inspire melt-down in the reader without describing a body part or move, just the pure distilled emotion of the encounter. They were beautiful. This book may be more universal than she knows. I couldn't be more ot. Kris S said Funny, poignant and insightful. Told with great humor and honesty, Of Two Minds tells how Emily Diaz comes to accept her dual heritage as a gay Mexican-American living on the East Coast. In a refreshing twist, the book is a coming-of-age tale that centers on a woman who is in her mid-forties. With its moving and vivid descriptions of family ties and the clash of cultures, this book will make you laugh, it will make you think and it may also bring a tear to your eye.. "Of Two Minds" according to Charlie. I found reading Of Two Minds to be totally different experience from my expectations. I expected it to be a story of growing up as a "gay woman," or possible a gay person (which it is), but found that it brought up many of the things from my personal past as a "straight person" that I had managed to gloss over or hide. These issues were not about my being gay (which doesn't seem to be part of my world) but about being a person trying to deal with all of those hormones, school, family, making a way on my own