The Mixquiahuala Letters

Ana Castillo’s epistolary novella contains a series of loosely connected, fictionalized letters to Alicia from protagonist Teresa. At the beginning of the text, Castillo includes a table of...

This award-winning book is made up of a series of 40 letters written by Teresa, a young woman of Mexican descent, to her friend Alicia. The fact that it is made of letters makes this an epistolary...

Castillo uses the epistolary style to present a first-person narrative of one woman’s meaningful friendship with another. Letters are a uniquely personal, informal medium in which Teresa conveys...

The Complexities of Friendship Spanning several years and arranged in non-chronological order, the letters that make up the novel provide a picture of the friends’ intense relationship and how it...