Ana Castillo’s new book, “Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home,” makes you see stories everywhere. Or maybe they’re ghosts. Borrelli has more.
Author and artist Ana Castillo, shown in front of her artwork on June 27, 2023, at the Hilton Asmus Contemporary in River North.
She didn’t laugh but smiled flatly and I couldn’t tell if she was insulted or joking or not joking but kind of joking. I never do know. She wore white pants stylishly frayed at the cuffs and a white sweater beneath a denim jacket embroidered elegantly on the sleeves, a piece from a Spanish designer, but Castillo is not the type to give plugs and decides not to spill the label.
She’s said reviewers have been characterizing her stories as about Mexicans “going back and forth.” But whereas “customary migration is them coming here to find ‘a better life,’ I found it interesting, and this wasn’t intentional, my characters go north to south — but move up in status. My family here didn’t have a pool or housekeeper. In Mexico, that might have been.”
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