Cabañuelas - by Norma Elia Cantú (Paperback)

About the Book

In Cantú's latest novel Nena must decide where she can best be true to her entire self: in Spain with Paco or in Laredo, her home, where her job and family await her return.

Book Synopsis

In Cantú's latest novel Nena must decide where she can best be true to her entire self: in Spain with Paco or in Laredo, her home, where her job and family await her return.

Review Quotes

Cabañuelas will renew interest in Cantú's previous work as well as earn her a new generation of fans.--NBC News

As a folklorist, Cantú is fascinated by the hybrid culture that the border creates. Her novels often capture this dynamic world and what it means to grow up there.--Smithsonian Folklife

Cantú continues to be [a] major source for understanding life on the border.--Roundup Magazine

Cantú writes the effortless prose of a travel writer or memoirist reporting contemporary events, a diarist. . . . Cantú controls her art with excellence.--La Bloga

It is a feast for the senses, sighing of monarch butterflies flocking south, croquetas de salmon and plato fuerte, Tejano music blaring against the stars. . . . Cabañuelas is an arresting story of individual complexities.--Foreword Reviews

Readers will . . . learn much about the human heart along the way.--Michele Potter, enchantment

The pictures of Spain Cantú paints with her words are as rich as the Texas soil of her homeland. . . . Marvelously entertaining and romantic.--Texana Reads column, Corpus Christi Caller-Times

This book is a brilliant meditation on the traditional fiestas of Spain and the years of La Movida. . . . This novel creates a new blueprint of representation that points at the fluidity of time and space, to a consciousness that refuses borders and the sort of separation that Cantú's writing is usually addressing.--Juan Velasco, American Book Review

We can't know where Cantú diverges from Nena in Cabañuelas. What we can know, what is lyrically evident in Cantú's latest novel, is her trust in commonalities and her love for both the people and the landscape of the borderlands.--Lone Star Literary Life

About the Author

Norma Elia Cantú is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University. Her recent works include Transcendental Train Yard: A Collaborative Suite of Serigraphs, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, Updated Edition (UNM Press), and the coedited anthology Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art.