Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile-from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality-and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home.
- ISBN10 1573447005
- ISBN13 9781573447003
- Publish Date 18 October 2016 (first published 27 August 1996)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cleis Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 256
- Language English