6/1/2023 0 Comments Caramelo book![]() ''Caramelo'' opens with a boisterous rendition of the Reyes caravan - traveling in a ''brand-new used white Cadillac,'' a green Impala and a red Chevy station wagon - from Chicago to Mexico City, with Lala and her six brothers making faces out the window to her cousins Elvis, Aristotle and Byron. ![]() The title of the novel also has a dual nature, referring to both a candy and a color, suggesting the sweet trials of a loud, emotional brown-skinned clan. ''Like all emigrants caught between here and there,'' Lala has two tales to tell, a personal story of family and a political story of culture and power. Lala, as she's known, affirms those values (faith, loyalty, love, work) that both cultures claim to hold dear, all the while bearing wry witness to the oppressions practiced in their names. Celaya Reyes, Cisneros's narrator and heroine, born in Chicago and on pilgrimage to Mexico City every summer of her young life, extracts what's useful from both her worlds. ![]() SANDRA CISNEROS has written a joyful, fizzy American novel, a deliciously subversive reminder that ''American'' applies to plenty of territory beyond the borders of the United States. ![]()
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