The trace elements of random tea parties
By: Felicia Luna Lemus.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Fiction.; Grandmothers -- Fiction.; Lesbians -- Fiction.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.; Mexico -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Leticia Marisol Estrella Torrez, a university honors graduate, moves north to Los Angeles in an attempt to break from the traditional grandmother who raised her and from Weeping Woman, the Mexican folkloric siren who is said to fly through the skies at night to steal troublesome children and who has courted Leticia since her adolescence. In Los Angeles, Leticia is quickly immersed in the post-punk, post-Queer hipster scene, and after a short-lived affair with the devastating Edith, Leticia meets K, a tall, dark and handsome Old Spice-wearing lovely from Philadelphia. K and Leticia tumble into "candy heaven" bliss, with, to Leticia's amazement, her nana's blessing. As her confidence in herself and her own sexuality grows, Leticia moves toward an identity that K refers to as "shy bookworm sweater femme boy"--Only to have her newfound happiness brutally shattered by Nana's sudden illness and by the disturbing discovery that K is not as trustworthy as she seems.--from Publisher description.