Give It to Me

Name: Give It to Me
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ana Castillo
ISBN: 9781666642902

Author: Ana Castillo

Narrator: Maria McCann

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/05/2023

Categories: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Lgbtq+, Family Life

Synopsis

Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. Her sexual obsession with him flares as she checks out her other options, but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant for adventure.

About Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo is a celebrated and distinguished poet, writer, editor, playwright, translator, and visual artist. Her accolades include the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and PEN Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received a Lambda in fiction and nonfiction, NEA fellowships in fiction and poetry, and an American Book Award. She is the bestselling author of So Far from God and Sapogonia, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

About Maria McCann

Maria McCann is an audiobook narrator who graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television. She has appeared in over forty films and television shows, including Lucifer, Shameless, and Grey’s Anatomy, and works as an acting coach. A Los Angeles native who is proud of her Mexican heritage, she is a busy wife and mother who serves on the board of directors for Colorado’s Wild Animal Sanctuary.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ella on July 11, 2014

One of my most memorable tasks as an intern with the Feminist Press last summer was writing up the advance information sheets for Anna Castillo’s novel Give It To Me, then a manuscript in the early stages of copy-editing. The AI sheets would be used to pitch the book to sales representatives and boo......more

Goodreads review by Linda on August 04, 2014

Was it good for you . . . um . . .well, it was okay. Actually, there is a lot to enjoy in Castillo's tale other than the graphic sex scenes. She has a sharp sense of humor that resonates throughout this story of a fortysomething divorcee, Palma Piedras, who has lost her way. The author's comments ab......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on April 17, 2016

What first attracted me to this book was the fact that I had read one of Castillo's other books entitled So Far From God. SFFG is Magical Realism, so I was prepared for a book not rooted in any kind of reality, but from reading about this book, I expected some reality. I got it, some reality that is,......more

Goodreads review by Frank on June 25, 2018

If you like dirty, nasty, hardcore sex that pushes back on the criminalization of women’s sexual autonomy and agency, read it.......more

Goodreads review by Elvia Xoxipilli on May 10, 2019

I have one word for this book: raunchy. I have read several of her books, and this book is absolutely nothing like her usual writing. I was extremely disappointed in this book. It had no substance, no depth, and the fact that she did not include parentheses when the characters were speaking, just bo......more