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What Night Brings
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Published in 2003, Carla Trujillo’s novel What Night Brings is set in the late 1960s in a town outside San Francisco. The novel centers on Marcía Cruz, an 11-year-old Chicana girl struggling with her sexual orientation and domestic abuse amidst a larger backdrop of the Vietnam War and a crisis of faith in America.
What Night Brings is Trujillo’s first novel, but not her first published work relating to its central themes. She edited an anthology of works by lesbian Chicana writers titled Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About in 1991, and she edited another anthology, Living Chicana Theory. Trujillo also earned accolades for What Night Brings, including writing awards such as the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Latino Literary Foundation Latino Book Award. She also won the Miguel Mármol prize for bringing light to human rights issues.
What Night Brings is written in a first-person limited point of view. The reader is only privy to Marci’s thoughts and experiences. The scope of the novel is mostly limited to Marci’s home, her extended family, and locations in California. Occurring sometime in the 1960s, the Vietnam War is the main point of historical Unlock all 50 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
