{"product_id":"9780299202231","title":"Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories","description":"A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional \"crónica\" make this memoir compelling and powerful. \u003ci\u003eKiller Crónicas\u003c\/i\u003e confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Includes a chapter that was awarded first prize in \u003ci\u003eEl Andar\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s Chicano Literary Excellence Contest in the category of personal memoir.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175983268080,"sku":"9780299202231","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299202231_p0.jpg?v=1763683369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299202231","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}