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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Jamie Figueroa
Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico
N/A
2024
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Publisher > Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Author > Jamie Figueroa
Title > Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico
Issue > N/A
Year > 2024
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ISBN > 9780553387698
Pages > 240
Genre > Biography-And-Autobiography Family-And-Relationships
Genealogy Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2024-03
Release > 2026-09-14
Disks > 01 x 4 MB
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A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican
woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herselfA lushly written deeply
felt investigation into the meanings of home lineage and selfhood Melissa
Febos bestselling author of Body Work and GirlhoodGrowing 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 assimilationIn lyrical blistering proseFigueroarecalls a childhood in
Ohioin whichshe was relegatedto the background of her mothers 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
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/mother-island-a-daughter-claims-puerto-rico-
jamie-figueroa/3b35333f18403aed
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