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    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"
    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"
    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"
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    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

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    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781535834964
    A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

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      A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters" - Gale

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      The Agüero Sisters

      Cristina Garcia

      1997

      Introduction

      In 1997, when The Agüero Sisters was published, Cristina Garcia confirmed that her literary subject was multigenerational Cuban-American families with all their conflicts, emotional complexity, and belief in magic and miracles. By the time this novel was published, Garcia was already well known for her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, which received outstanding reviews when it was published in 1992.

      The Agüero Sisters is clearly the work of the same author as Dreaming in Cuban. Not only do the two share a preoccupation with family dynamics, but both novels have justifiably been praised for their unusual and poetic use of language. Garcia wrote poetry before she began her first novel. In an interview in Newsday, Garcia said: Language is what drives a narrative. If I’m reading a novel and it doesn’t engage me sentence by sentence, I won’t finish it. She said that she stopped being a journalist because of her love of poetry: I first started reading poetry in a serious way when I was about thirty. After that, there was no turning back. It was just this explosion of language and possibility that I hadn’t known existed. Throughout The Agüero Sisters her love of language comes through in unforgettable images. Reina recalls her dead mother’s throat as an estuary of color and disorder. She describes a sky collapsing with stars, a refrigerator that coughs like a four-pack-a-day smoker, and rain that’s "hard, linear and relentless, like self-important

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