Women Are Like Chickens: A Novel

by Annette Sandoval

WOMEN ARE LIKE CHICKENS is the story of four Mexican American friends raised in San Francisco during the 1980's. Although subject to strict cultural expectations and limitations, each will examine and redefine her own unique identity. At times dark, this novel has unsentimental humor at its core.

235 pages, ebook

First published March 7, 2014

About the author

As of August 1, 2016, this book is no longer available.

Reviews

[Nina Shevchuk-Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, let me say that none of the characters the reader cares about in Annette Sandoval’s novel really think that women are like chickens. The title is what the women know men around them think. The setting is San Francisco’s Mission district, in the early 1980s. The protagonists are a group of young women who must come of age in the predominantly Mexican community that expects them to be wives and mothers of the most conventional variety. The yarn Sandoval spins of their lives, instead, would make an HBO show-runner proud. Death, love, and food are never too far from each other; episodes of powerful yearning, comical justice, and occasional violence replace each other at a cinematic pace.
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