<p>GIRL IN A CAGE  is a novel of hope for our time about journeys-replete with danger and confinement-to find personal freedom.After a novelist moves to Kansas in 2018, she is visited by a ghost who wants her to rescue a young, Mexican immigrant girl he saw with a brutish man; all the while, her deported mother awaits any word of her daughter. Five main characters intersect and cross boundaries of different types: between nations, between life and the world of spirits, between truth and fiction, freedom and entrapment. Ana López de Domínguez and her daughter Anita migrate from Mexico, the gambler Jack Collins becomes entangled in juvenile sex trafficking, and Antoine Benet is transformed into a ghost who enlists novelist Claire Schmidt's help to liberate Anita."Girl in a Cage", like "American Dirt", deals with immigration problems but, like "The House of the Spirits", offers a hopeful aspect of magical realism.</p>

Girl in a Cage: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Schumm, Sandra J

Literary

Papallona Books

Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth and Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study feature mature protagonists who recall their mothers as a way to define their own identities and to nullify the fictional matricide prevalent in post-war Spanish novels; this twenty-first-century fiction highlights the haunting presence of the mother and begs comparison with myth.

Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels: Rewriting the Matriarchal Archetype

History & Criticism

University Press Copublishing Division

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