num_pages: 256
description: Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile—from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality—and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home.
language: English
title: Memory Mambo
titlecomplete: Memory Mambo
genres: American, United States, LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Race, Novels, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 563
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction
publisher: Cleis Press