Happiness

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Spanish by lizabeth Horan. "In this compelling collection of 44 stories, first published in Chile in 1991, Agosin (Spanish, Wellesley Coll.) explores such themes as relationships and class conflicts among Latin American women, being Jewish within a predominantly Catholic culture, political oppression, and childhood. The stories, often as short as a page and a half, are powerful and intuitive"--Library Journal.