A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love and at times material success, as they move in and out of the reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them in this landmark collection of stories. Passion, obsession, raucous humor and satire are in store for the reader of this tour-de-force examination of Hispanic womanhood.

African Passions and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Rivera, Beatriz

United States

Arte Publico Press

Fiction. Rebecca Barrios, a well-off Miami Beach housewife (and she hates that description, by the way), has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or women's get-together. In fact, the two worlds -- the real and the fictional, the American and the Cuban, the living present and the (supposedly) long-dead past -- have begun to relentlessly intertwine in unsettling ways. Born in Havana, Beatriz Rivera came to Miami at the age of three, soon after Castro's rise to power in Cuba. Her books include AFRICAN PASSIONS AND OTHER STORIES and the novel MIDNIGHT SANDWICHES AT THE MARIPOSA EXPRESS, both of which are also available from SPD.

Playing with Light

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Mateo Irigaray has come home to end his miserable life. A child prodigy, he was the pride of Hudson County. Born to a Colombian mother who died giving birth to him, he was raised by his older sister and surrounded by an assortment of unusual family members. Though young and inexperienced, it didn?t take his sister long to realize that Mateo was unusual. By the age of two, he could read and write. As a boy, he could learn a foreign language in a matter of weeks. But now he's depressed and ready to end it all.

Do Not Pass Go

Literary

Metaheuristic Algorithms: New Methods, Evaluation, and Performance Analysis (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 1163)

Computers & Technology

Cuevas, Erik

Luque, Alberto

Morales Castañeda, Bernardo

Computer Science

Springer

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