Trini

By Estela Portillo Trambley

Book Overview

The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley, Trini is the powerful story of one girl's journey across borders and into womanhood. Born in the rural Tarahumara region of Mexico, young Trini shares her family's struggle to survive in a beautiful but inhospitable terrain. When the hunger for land ownership drives Trini to strike out alone, she experiences love and loss, tragedy and betrayal, as she journeys across the border in pursuit of independence in a booming postwar America. Rich with detail and beautiful language, Trini sweeps through the landscape of rural Mexico to crumbling city brothels, adobe border villages, and finally to the wide-open promise of the American Southwest. This classic tale of the Borderlands reveals the hunger and fierce joy at the heart of 1950s Chicano culture. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916950611
• ISBN13: 9780916950613
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.