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What Night Brings | Carla Trujillo

4 posts | 3 read | 3 to read

What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci-smart, feisty and funny-tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom. "Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings puts one more wonderful Latina novelist on the must-read list right up there beside Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia. This moving story, told in the completely convincing voice of its young protagonist, explores living with domestic abuse and longing for the maternal protection that always fails to materialize. We touch the mysteries of religion in a child's life, and are completely captivated by a young girl's budding lesbian identity. Character and situation building are exemplary, yet we are hit hard when the book takes its final turn. What Night Brings is a page-turner that lingers long after the last page has been turned."-Margaret Randall "A story that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, beautifully told by a wise and wise-cracking young girl."-Sandra Cisneros

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SqueakyChu

What Night Brings | Carla Trujillo

This phrase tugged at my heart strings. My dad...who died many years ago...was once a Fuller Brush Man. That truly was another era. 💕

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SqueakyChu

What Night Brings | Carla Trujillo

This is turning out to be a cute story as only a preteen can tell it. At first, I was not sure I‘d like this book, but slowly Marci is worming her way into my heart. 😊

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SqueakyChu

What Night Brings | Carla Trujillo

I‘m still deciding if I want to finish reading this book or not. I like that the novel about a young Mexican-American lesbian has many words in Spanish of which I seem to know all of the bad ones. Haha! However, I find it annoying that the story is told in the voice of this very young protagonist. We‘ll see how far I get in this novel.

SqueakyChu I found a word I cannot translate. What is “reponosa”? 3y

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Mixedreader

What Night Brings | Carla Trujillo

It has captured my breath.

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