Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.
Gulf Dreams is Emma P rez's signature work. Not only does it tell the dirty story of family abuse and misogynistic violence that plagues the Chicano/a community--which itself forms the basis of P rez's famous theoretical constructs,...