Juli Delgado Lopera
Forfatter af Fiebre Tropical: A Novel
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- Fødselsdato
- 1988-06-04
- Køn
- they/them/their
- Nationalitet
- Colombia
USA - Fødested
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Bopæl
- Miami, Florida, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Uddannelse
- University of California, Berkeley (BA)
San Francisco State University (MFA) - Erhverv
- Executive & Artistic Director, Radar Productions (nonprofit)
- Organisationer
- Sister Spit [a feminist ∙ queer ∙ traveling spoken-word/performance group]
Radar Productions
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- Værker
- 3
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 118
- Popularitet
- #167,490
- Vurdering
- 4.1
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 7
- Sprog
- 2
Francisca is a teenage, Colombian immigrant; figuring out her own sexuality, her family, and her relationship to the fundamentalist Christianity and to the charismatic Carmen, the preacher's daughter. Her voice is great, young and brash. The second half of the book covers the stories of relatives in Colombia, and was not as interesting and somewhat hard to follow.
Here is a quote to give an idea of the voice:
“Outside, the sky in all its fury released buckets of water that swayed with the palm trees. El cielo gris, oscuro. Talk about goth. Right at noon the sky transformed itself from orange light to chunky black clouds that gave zero fucks about your beach plans or the three hours you spent ironing that hair, splaying all its sadness right in front of you.”… (mere)