Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico TC_Bestseller New York Times bestselling author

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Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico TC_Bestseller New York Times bestselling authorA 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