Palm Latitudes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Kate Braverman
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Los Angeles
- Principal Characters: Francisca Ramos, Gloria Hernández, Marta Ortega
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Prostitution or prostitutes, Despair, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Women, Central America or Central Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Sex roles
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
In the opening pages of Kate Braverman's first novel, Lithium for Medea (1979), it became clear that the young woman narrator had never been able to handle her feelings for her mother, a successful executive, or for her father, whose first bout with cancer during her childhood had destroyed her sense of security, and who, as the novel began, was rapidly approaching death from a second attack. Critics had difficulty finding sympathy for the self-pitying narrator, who had first married and supported an impotent perpetual student, then subsided into drugged indolence as the puppet...
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