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"From living literary legend Ana Castillo's groundbreaking collection explores the secrets that are kept within households, the behaviors borne of patriarchal privilege, and the women they impact the most. The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women's rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path. As she considers moving to California to join La Causa, Mexican American activisit César Chávez's movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmworkers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a round-trip ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says; tell her, her children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get her mother, Tina, back to Chicago. But it won't be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well."--Page 2 of cover.