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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castro, Joy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Series:American lives.
Subjects:
Castro, Joy > Family.
Castro, Joy > Childhood and youth.
Castro, Joy.
English teachers > United States > Biography.
Jehovah's Witnesses > Biography.
Abused children > United States > Biography.
Children of divorced parents > United States > Biography.
Professeurs d'anglais > États-Unis > Biographies.
Témoins de Jéhovah > Biographies.
Enfants de divorcés > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Abused children.
Children of divorced parents.
English teachers.
Families.
Jehovah's Witnesses.
United States.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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