Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir (original) (raw)

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is a 2019 book by Cherríe Moraga. It is a memoir in which the central figure is her mother, Elvira, and in the process of examining Elvira's history, Moraga attempts to also tell the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. Moraga spins her own story in relation to that of Elvira's, from her own coming of age and coming out of the closet, all the way through Elvira's eventual decline from Alzheimer's disease.