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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | American lives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a 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 unmoored life of searching and striving that she's turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detaile. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
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