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(Redirected from Yasmín Ramírez) 2022 non-fiction book

¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family
AuthorYasmín Ramírez
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHispanic and Latin American Culture
GenreMemoir
PublisherCinco Puntos Press
Publication date2 August 2022
Pages272
ISBN978-1-94762-755-0
Websitewww.leeandlow.com/books/andale-prieta

¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family is a 2022 memoir by Yasmín Ramírez, a Mexican–American writer and associate professor of English and creative writing at El Paso Community College. She was motivated to write the memoir after the death of her maternal grandmother, Ita.

Synopsis

In the book, Ramírez tells about growing up in El Paso, Texas. The stars of the book are the women in her life: her great grandmother Lupe, her mother Leticia, and most importantly, her grandmother Ita.

In the second half of the book she also explores her strained relationship with her absent father.

The title reclaims the sometimes derogatory term prieta, which her grandmother used as a nickname for the author, but which is often used in Spanish as a slur to describe people with dark skin.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews praised the book's "vivid imagery" and declared it to be a "promising debut". Book Riot selected ¡Ándale, Prieta! as a "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" and praised the writing for being both "rich" and "casual".

Author

Ramírez in 2020

Ramírez completed an MFA in the Bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at El Paso Community College. She has published a number of short stories and was a 2021 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Writing Author Fellow.

¡Ándale, Prieta! started as her thesis and took four or five years to complete.

References

  1. ^ EPHP Promotions (6 May 2022). "EPCC English Professor Yasmín Ramírez Releases Book". El Paso Herald-Post. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  2. ^ Aguilar, Sofía (29 April 2022). "Yasmín Ramírez's '¡Andalé, Prieta!' Explores Grief, Latinidad and Matriarchy". HipLatina. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  3. ^ Nahmad, Erica (1 June 2022). "Meet Yasmín Ramírez, Author of '¡Ándale, Prieta!', Who Transformed Her Personal Struggles Into a Unique Narrative". BeLatina. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  4. ^ "¡Ándale, Prieta!". Kirkus Reviews. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  5. Laveaga Luna, Minerva. "¡Ándale Prieta!". Book Riot. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  6. Perry, Jasmine (11 May 2022). "El Paso teacher writes a memoir called Ándale Prieta!". KTSM. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

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