by Annecy Báez
Northwestern University Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-0-8101-4070-7 | Paper: 978-1-931896-38-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3602.A385M93 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories, winner of the 2007 Mármol Prize, is a collection of fourteen interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx as they deal with the choices they make in their everyday life. These stories span three decades, beginning in the 1970s, and their topics range from mother-daughter struggles, father-daughter betrayal, family, and child abuse, to emerging sexuality, love, loss, and healing. Annecy Baez's daring treatment of taboo themes, such as sexual child abuse and the struggle of the individual against restrictive traditional values, makes this book unique in Dominican fiction.