The Moths and Other Stories
1985
First Published
4.03
Average Rating
125
Number of Pages
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.
Avg Rating
4.03
Number of Ratings
574
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Helena Maria Viramontes
Author · 5 books
Helena Maria Viramontes (born February 26, 1954) is an American fiction writer and professor of English. (from Wikipedia)
