Full name: The Moths and Other Stories

Author: Helena Maria Viramontes Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781558851382 1558851380

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. Similar books: The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash Fascination by William Boyd More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson The Collected Stories by Grace Paley The Collected Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night by Thisbe Nissen The Cranes That Build The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson All Around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau