Title: A shell for Angela /
Authors: Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas
Publisher: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Mexican American women California, Southern Fiction.; Married women California, Southern Fiction.; Suburban life California, Southern Fiction.; Mexican American women Fiction; Married women Fiction.; Suburban life Fiction; California, Southern Fiction.
Abstract: From the moment Angela, 9, saw her father led away by immigration officials, she spent her life denying her Mexican roots. Now, a grown woman, she feels guilty. The novel opens as she leaves her comfortable home in Los Angeles to return to a fishing village in Mexico to face the reality of her denial.