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Author De Leon, Jennifer, 1979- author.

Title White space : essays on culture, race, & writing / Jennifer De Leon.

Publisher Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
©2021

ISBN 9781625345677 (paperback)
1625345674 (paperback)



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Description viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Mapping Yolanda -- White ceiling -- Round three -- A pink dress -- White space -- First day -- Guatemala notebooks: little black notebook -- Mountain -- Guatemala notebooks: la voz popular -- Los monólogos de la vagina -- Guatemala notebooks: life in the campo -- Volcán tajumulco -- Guatemala notebooks: child workers -- Lucky woman -- Guatemala notebooks: Guatemalan history -- A map of the world -- Work -- Happy new year -- Gyms -- Story of the letter from my father -- Mother tongue -- Bridged.
Summary "Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return--to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots."--Publisher's website.
Subject(S) Guatemalan Americans -- Biography.
Guatemalan Americans.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781625345677 (paperback)
1625345674 (paperback)