num_pages: 138
description: Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict.
language: English
title: The Mixquiahuala Letters
titlecomplete: The Mixquiahuala Letters
genres: Read For School, Female Authors, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Latin American, Feminism, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 917
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Bilingual Review Press