A girl waits for her father, a Dominican mobster whom she idolizes and who always shows up without warning. All throughout her life her daddy appears, disappears, and reappears, laden with money and an endless supply of cars, girlfriends, and presents. Narrated by this young girl as she awaits the r[...]
As in Rita Indiana's debut novel, "Papi," it is a child's voice--innocent, but with a certain sarcastic edge--that holds forth on a range of topics in "Nombres y animales." The narrator discusses animals, music, and television, as well as--more revealingly--family, mothers and fathers, initiation, l[...]