02013cam a2200301 i 4500 1486561657 TxAuBib 20240823120000.0 231101s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023050448 9780593449097 HRD 28.00 0593449096 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla, author. Catalina [BOOK] / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. First edition. New York : One World, 2024. 204 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow student, an actual anthropology scholar who wants to teach her about the Andean world she was born in but never knew. They are drawn to each other by the strange attraction of exocticized fascination-she, a real live Latin American, becomes a subject of academic interest; he, in turns, draws her fascination as a white legacy admit born into the strange world she now navigates. Catalina is uncertain: should she let herself become what he wants her to be and take up residence in his secure and privileged world? Or should she return to the life she's known, with all its thorny precarity? Who is she anyway?". 20240823. College students Fiction. Grandparents Fiction. Latin Americans Fiction. Queens (New York, N.Y) Fiction.