04077cam a2200841 4500 524836482 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307764591 0307764591 B00413QAR4 Amazon afa7d847-0673-466d-8e0c-ddff785b3d2d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4535 4535 4535 460660 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Arana, Marie. American Chica [OverDrive] : Two Worlds, One Childhood. Random House Publishing Group, 2011. life story. Biography. true life. Peru. non fiction. BIOS. Nonfiction. autobiographies. memories. Memoirs. true story. Inspirational. inspiration. Advice. feminism. Life Stories. biographies. History. narrative nonfiction. Motivational. memoir. Sociology. True stories. inspirational books. biographies and memoirs. motivational books. non fiction books. nonfiction books. history books. books for women. inspirational books for women. biographies of famous people. biography autobiography. memoirs biographies. biography and memoirs. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2084kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who “was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An <b>American Chica</b>.”<br /> <br /> Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru—earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology—and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana’s historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the... Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AFA/7D8/47/AmericanChicaTwoWorldsOneChildhood9780307764591.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AFA7D847-0673-466D-8E0C-DDFF785B3D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)