When My Cousins Come to TownEvery summer a young girl looks forward to her cousins coming to town. All the cousins have nicknames for themselves, and this summer the young girl is determined to earn her own nickname as well.

cultural critic

shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the bins of the female unconscious

sounding them out

outspoken and opinionated girls

to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today

In a crowded London pub

Mixing biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews--with history

After failing to come into her powers

her late father's prestigious family--some who accept her and some who think she doesn't belong

and unforgettable

"La Loba" teaches about the transformative function of the psyche

and in life