Miss Florence's Trunk

by Ana Lydia Vega

98 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

Recipient of both the Premio Juan Rulfo (1982) and the Premio Casa de las Américas (1981). Vega belongs to a generation of Puerto Rican writers that has integrated into their writing mordant reflections on the ambiguous political status of their island nation. Ana Lydia Vega pursued an academic career as a professor of both French literature and Caribbean studies at the same time that she became an accomplished author.

Reviews

[leni swagger · Rating 3 out of 5]

From now on, I will review all of the books discussed in the lecture with an outrageous quote said by my professors that will never receive any context. As a girl, I liked this book, but I liked my guest lecturer's phrasing better:

"While adventure stories are catered towards male audiences, plantation novels are mainly loved by women"