Tagged: women writers
Belinda “Billie” Levine is an unlicensed PI working under the supervision of her well-known retired grandfather, William Levine. With her mother recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Billie hopes that her new gig will afford her a flexible schedule and cash to pay the bills. Her newest client, Tommy …
Etta is a 37-year-old Burmese-American lawyer living in Boston with her fiancé Jason. When readers meet her, she is mourning the loss of her grandmother, or Ahpwa. When Etta comes across treasured items while going through her belongings, the memories come flooding back and pull Etta in a direction she …
In Mexican-American culture, a chingón is known as a “badass”. In the feminine form, however, chingona means unruly woman, or a woman who is problematic. First-generation scholar Alma Zaragoza-Petty encourages women to reclaim that word. We should own it and use that badassery to heal from our own trauma and …