{"product_id":"native-country-of-the-heart-a-memoir-9781250251176","title":"Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis memoir's beauty is in its fierce intimacy. --Roy Hoffman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated Books of 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated editor of \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back\u003c\/i\u003e, Cherr e Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative Country of the Heart: A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemoir\u003c\/i\u003e is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherr e Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother's journey--from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer's--she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother's memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, \u003ci\u003eNative Country of the Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250251176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Cherr\u0026#237;e Moraga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648724496540,"sku":"9781250251176","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3b8998eb-f7fe-4422-b26b-2f6041661ad9.jpg?v=1603870847","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/native-country-of-the-heart-a-memoir-9781250251176","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}