Dark plums
By: Maria Espinosa.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Houston, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Dark Plums is Maria Espinosa's exploration of a young woman's search for love and self in Manhattan. Set in the late 1950s, Adrianne, a young girl from Texas, wanders the city and has sex indiscriminately with strangers. Her relationship with a Cuban-American artist, Alfredo, leads to further degradation as she agrees to work as a hooker in order to support his work as a painter. His treatment of her becomes increasingly brutal, and her suffering becomes so intense that she breaks down.

But she ultimately emerges with the strength to leave him.