Mother island : a daughter claims Puerto Rico
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 245 pages ; 25 cm
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
305.8687 FIGUER 2024
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305.8687 FIGUER 2024
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Figueroa, Jamie -- Travel -- Puerto Rico -- San Juan.
Figueroa, Jamie.
Mothers and daughters -- Ohio.
Ohio -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Ethnic identity.
Puerto Rican women -- Ohio -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- Ohio -- Ethnic identity.
San Juan (P.R.) -- Social life and customs.
Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Biography.
Figueroa, Jamie -- Travel -- Puerto Rico -- San Juan.
Figueroa, Jamie.
Mothers and daughters -- Ohio.
Ohio -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Ethnic identity.
Puerto Rican women -- Ohio -- Biography.
Puerto Rican women -- Ohio -- Ethnic identity.
San Juan (P.R.) -- Social life and customs.
Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2024].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher 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 assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother's string of failed marriages; her own marriage in her early twenties to a man twice her age; how her work as a licensedmassage therapist helped her heal her body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother's native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. In stunning prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Whodo we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. 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 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 assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother's 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 body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother's native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. In stunning prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?"--,Provided by publisher.A 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 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 assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother’s 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 body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother’s native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. Drawing from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?''--,provided by amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Figueroa, J. (2024). Mother island: a daughter claims Puerto Rico (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Figueroa, Jamie. 2024. Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Figueroa, Jamie. Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico Pantheon Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Figueroa, Jamie. Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico First edition., Pantheon Books, 2024.
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