On a recent Good Morning America interview with author Taylor Jenkins Reid, Michael Strahan asked the following: “You have faced some criticism for writing main characters like Carrie, who is Latina. And you’ve said before that you’ve felt conflicted about creating characters with a background that is different from yours. What made you decide to […]
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is the debut novel of Jamie Figueroa. Her bio on her website states that she is “Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and long-time resident of northern New Mexico.” Boricua is a person from Puerto Rico by birth or descent and the Taíno “were an Arawak people who were the indigenous
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The story of La Llorona has been told and re-told for years, and there are many variations on some details, but what never changes is the bone-chilling fact that, according to Mexican legend, a woman drowned her own children in a depression-induced rage. She is rumored to roam at night, searching and wailing for her
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