Gardens Don't Grow on Rivers
Gabriela Santana
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Fourteen-year-old Paulina faces different situations that destroy her home environment and force her, just a teenager, to become the main source of income in her family amidst the agitation of post-revolutionary Mexico. What's more, she needs to deal with her capacity to discover and to question the world around her. Paulina's left-wing and feminist sympathies are shown in the story, which leads her to rub shoulders with important figures in the arts and politics of her time; in turn, those ideas affect her decisions when it comes to love. She always rejects the easy way out and the scheme of values that middle-class members continue to defend to this day.
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Battleship Potemkin, liberated woman, Identity, decisions when it comes to love. Middle-class members, lost her father, red shoes, painting, miscommunication in a relationship, in love, post-revolutionary Mexico. Mother and daughter relationships. Single mother. Social criticism. Macho attitude. Women empowerment, defy, Sor Juana, freedom, infidelity, mural painting, love, formal and boring suitors. Idea of marriage as a means to economic safety, mother-daughter relationship, Frida Kahlo, hearsay, defiance, lover, artists, breakups. Independent women. Woman who doesn’t settle for going with the flow, The thirties, Oaxaca, white coat, Spanish flu, socialism, Mexico City, feminism, justice, feminist sympathies