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A Puerto Rican girl negotiates her own terms of survival in this fierce and funny novel by "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." --"The New York Times"
La nina seria, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister, Mili, is seen as vivacious - a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But something is not right in this Puerto Rican family. Set in the 1950s, a time when American influence is diluting Puerto Rico's rich island culture, Consuelo watches her own family's downward spiral. It is Consuelo who notices her beautiful sister's vivaciousness turn into mysterious bouts of hysteria and her playful invented language shift into an incomprehensible and chilling "language of birds." Ultimately Consuelo must choose: Will she fulfil the expectations of her family - offering consolation as their tragedy unfolds? Or will she risk becoming la fulana, the outsider, like the harlequin fiture of her neighbour Mario/Maria Sereno, who flaunts his tight red pedal pushers and empty brassiere as he refuses the traditional macho role of his culture.
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