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Bird of Paradise // How I Became Latina

• Raquel Cepeda • ISBN 9781451635874

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Bird of Paradise // How I Became Latina

• Raquel Cepeda • ISBN-13 9781451635874

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2013

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ISBN 9781451635874 • Completeness 48

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Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, she was sent to live with her maternal grandparents in the Paraíso (Paradise) district in Santo Domingo while still a baby. It proved to be an idyllic reprieve in her otherwise fraught childhood. Paraíso came to mean family, home, belonging. When Cepeda returned to the

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Publisher: Raquel Cepeda
2013
Pages: 336

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Contributor: using her own Dominican-American story as one exampleContributor: and in the process arrives at some sort of peace with her father

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Category: (atria/Simon & Schuster)Category: AutobiographyCategory: Latinx/LatineCategory: (macmillan)Category: MemoirCategory: Non-FictionCategory: (simon & Schuster)

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