The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream

by Mary Romero

Book Overview

2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

A complex rendering of the upbringing of Olivia--the daughter of a live-in maid to a wealthy family

This is Olivia's story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814776426
• ISBN13: 9780814776421
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"