Author: Jamie Figueroa
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646221214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction Debut Novel prize, this fableistic, "beautifully crafted, poetic" debut novel about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss is for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review). In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.
Author: Jamie Figueroa
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0553387693
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by and against a mother who settled into the safety of assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother’s string of failed marriages; her own marriage in her early twenties to a man twice her age; how her work as a licensed massage therapist helped her heal her body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother’s native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. In stunning prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?
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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Author: Marko Marcus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781080519453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Great Journal and Book For Mom Dad Sister Brother. Great Family Gift For Yourself Or A Friend.
Author: Wendell Phillips
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Author: Helen Dunmore
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613244213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Tanya's life is a mess. She's got four new brothers and sisters. Nobody in her family gets much sleep anymore, and there are diapers everywhere. Tanya deals with the craziness by writing in her diary -- and there's no shortage of hilarious stories to tell!
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484487884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Mercer Mayer's Little Critter spends time with his brother and sister in these classic, funny, and heartwarming stories. FeaturingJust Me and My Little Brother and Me Too!, this two-in-one picture book is an endearing tribute to brothers and sisters
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Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780399229084
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When he learns that his mother is going to have a baby, Tommy is very excited and hopes that the baby will be a sister.
Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Endogamy and exogamy
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Author: Emma Wotton De Long
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Company
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Biography of wife of the leader of the Jeanette Expedition, with insights into her husbands character and sidelights on the Jeanette saga.
