Blood Book BRITISH Castillo—now an established Chicana novelist

Castillo—now an established Chicana novelist

When the academy comes under attack

A luminescent memoir not to be missed

In My Room (1996) takes place almost entirely in the narrator's bedroom

Not even he knows how bad it really is

Blood Book BRITISH Castillo—now an established Chicana novelistAn unnamed protagonist is prompted by their grandmother's slide into dementia to investigate their family history. The more their grandmother forgets, the more the narrator tries to what was it in their childhood that prompted them to feel so alienated from their body? Why is their grandmother struggling to differentiate between herself and her sister who died as a child? And what happened to their great aunt, who disappeared when she was young? But