Biographies of famous latins

Description:Within this winning portrait of a bicultural childhood are a host of notable characters—the mysterious Peruvian grandfather who stayed in his upstairs room for 20 years, the tradition-bound Peruvian grandmother who ruled the family, the young gardener who taught Arana about her soul, and most of all her parents, whose difficult but enduring marriage is at the very center of her story. She examines the warmth and pain she found in her relationships with her family, the varied reactions they had when she came out as bisexual, and the cognitive dissonance she experienced as she became upwardly mobile. I have a few lines from it tattooed on me. I will say, however, that reading it will put you in a state of constant rage if you're Latin American. It's the reason I'm committed to telling our stories. There's nothing more powerful than seeing yourself reflected in something you love; for me, that was literature.

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