Ebook {Epub PDF} Chicana Falsa by Michele Serros

 · Here the Chicana narrator's girlfriend, Martina, cannot believe her eyes when she pulls out one frosted bag of "Latino Style Vegetables," all "cut up and small as if we all eat alike," and. Fiction, Poetry, Spoken Word. edit data. Named by Newsweek as "A Woman to Watch for in the New Century," Michele Serros is the author of Chicana Falsa and other stories of death, identity and Oxnard, How to be a Chicana Role Model, Honey Blonde Chica, and ¡Scandalosa! A former staff writer for "The George Lopez Show," Serros has written for the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, Marie Claire, /5. Chicana Falsa and other stories of death, identity and Oxnard Paperback, , Triple M Press, 95 Pages. From the aspiring activist who sparks controversy in a supermarket's frozen food section, to the middle-aged chola who effortlessly intimidates her politically-correct boss, to the junior-high BFF who berated her "sloppy Spanish" and accused her of being a "Chicana Falsa," the people and places .

Chicana Falsa was a compact offering of non-fiction and poetry detailing Serros' complex, comical grappling of her own identity. It was genuine, often times heartbreaking, and funny as hell. It was one of the first pieces of literature that I deeply connected to and made me feel seen. Michele Serros reading her work at Lollapalooza. 1 Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard by Michele Serros. This collection of poetry and short stories about Latino/a life in America was Serros' first book, capturing. Author, poet and social commentator Michele Serros got her professional start at Santa Monica College. It was during her tenure as a Santa Monica College student that Lalo Press (a division of the Santa Monica Review/Santa Monica College) published Serros' first book of poetry and short stories, "Chicana Falsa and other stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard." After Lalo Press shut down.

Identity and the Doppelganger in Erasure and Chicana Falsa. . . / lpcwateringhole. By: Ashley E. Hoover. Both Erasure by Percival Everett and Chicana Falsa by Michele Serros explore the concept of individual identity and how it relates to one’s place within society. Although both books are very different, with Erasure being a novel and Chicana Falsa being a collection of poems and short stories narrated by the book’s author, they are similar in that the narrators. Chicana Falsa is Michele Serros’s debut collection of poetry and prose. The common thread between many of the pieces is humor, sarcasm, and irony. Serros has a complex identity as in some pieces she painfully discusses aspects such as tracking in high school which leads to self-hatred about her brownness. Here the Chicana narrator's girlfriend, Martina, cannot believe her eyes when she pulls out one frosted bag of "Latino Style Vegetables," all "cut up and small as if we all eat alike," and.