Family Conflicts in Anthony Barcellos’ Land of Milk and Money

Abstract

Anthony Barcellos’ novel, Land of Milk and Money (2012) revolves around the biblical passage featuring Cain and Abel – but within the contemporary context of family feuds and greed in the Portuguese diaspora in California. This essay aims at highlighting this saga, which covers a few generations of the Francisco family, an immigrant family, while showing the gradual, but inexorable, assimilation of their Azorean traditions into a new and overwhelming American culture.