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Island of bones : essays /

What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro's unm...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castro, Joy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Colección:American lives.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contnets ; Island of Bones; What My Mother Told MeWhen I Found Her; Clips of My Father's House; Turn of Faith; Getting Lost; In Theory; Farm Use; Hip Joints; No Más Monkey; Edging; Fitting; The Athens of the Midwest; You Can Avoid the Mistakes I Made; An Angle of Vision; Grip; Getting "Grip"; Hungry; On Becoming Educated; Vesper Adest; "¿Quién es ese Jimmy Choo?":A Latina Mother Comes of Age; Gratitude ; Source Acknowledgments ; Notes ; Bibliography