Amigas

Letters of Friendship and Exile

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by Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepulveda-Pulvirenti

University of Texas Press

Due/Published May 2001, 198 pages, paper

ISBN 0292705069

This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their current lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in the United States. Spanning more than thirty years (1966-2000), Agosin's and Sepulveda's letters speak on themes that are at once personal and political, family life and patriarchy, women's roles, the loneliness of being a religious or cultural outsider, political turmoil in Chile, and the experience of exile.