CatalinaCatalina
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Book, 2025
Current format, Book, 2025, Primera edición., Available .Book, 2025
Current format, Book, 2025, Primera edición., Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Cuando aceptan a Catalina en Harvard, se siente como si el destino se cumpliera: una niña milagro que escapa de la muerte en Latinoamérica, se muda a Queens para ser criada por sus abuelos indocumentados y se convierte en una de las elegidas. Pero nada es así de simple para Catalina, y mucho menos su propia mente complicada, contradictoria y despiadadamente inquisitiva. Ya en su último año, de cara a graduarse para salir a un mundo que no tiene lugar para los indocumentados, su sensación de fatalismo intensifica sus curiosidades y sus deseos. Catalina infiltra las subculturas de élite de la escuela -pasantías y revistas literarias, fiestas elegantes y sociedades secretas-, las cuales observa con el ojo de una antropóloga y el escepticismo de una intrusa; fascinada y asqueada a la vez. Deseosa de vivir un gran romance, Catalina se siente atraída hacia un compañero, un antropólogo real en ciernes que no puede esperar para contarle del mundo latinoamericano donde ella nació, pero no ha conocido, aunque su vida en Queens se empieza a desmoronar. Y todos los días, el reloj camina más cerca del abismo que será su vida después de la graduación. ¿Podrá salvar a su familia? ¿Podrá salvarse a sí misma? ¿Qué significa ser salvada?" --
"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads - internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies - and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow student, an actual anthropology scholar who wants to teach her about the Andean world she was born in but never knew. They are drawn to each other by the strange attraction of exocticized fascination - she, a real live Latin American, becomes a subject of academic interest; he, in turns, draws her fascination as a white legacy admit born into the strange world she now navigates. Catalina is uncertain: should she let herself become what he wants her to be and take up residence in his secure and privileged world? Or should she return to the life she's known, with all its thorny precarity? Who is she anyway?"--
"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads - internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies - and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow student, an actual anthropology scholar who wants to teach her about the Andean world she was born in but never knew. They are drawn to each other by the strange attraction of exocticized fascination - she, a real live Latin American, becomes a subject of academic interest; he, in turns, draws her fascination as a white legacy admit born into the strange world she now navigates. Catalina is uncertain: should she let herself become what he wants her to be and take up residence in his secure and privileged world? Or should she return to the life she's known, with all its thorny precarity? Who is she anyway?"--
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