![]() ![]() Marci cannot remember what set off his first attack on her and Corin, her younger sister. ![]() Throughout most of the novel, Eddie is drunk when he becomes violent, but his outbursts are otherwise arbitrary. She recalls a night in which Eddie tries to commit suicide with a hunting rifle. ![]() Marcía Cruz, or Marci, asks God to make her father, Eddie, leave and to turn her into a boy. Occurring sometime in the 1960s, the Vietnam War is the main point of historical context in the novel, serving as a mirror to the violence and hopelessness Marci experiences. The scope of the novel is mostly limited to Marci’s home, her extended family, and locations in California. The reader is only privy to Marci’s thoughts and experiences. What Night Brings is written in a first-person limited point of view. She also won the Miguel Mármol prize for bringing light to human rights issues. 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 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. What Night Brings is Trujillo’s first novel, but not her first published work relating to its central themes. ![]()
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