Jamie Figueroa - Mother Island A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico - 2024 [EN]

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"Mother Island by Jamie Figueroa" is a Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (3.7 MB). Written by Jamie Figueroa. The book spans approximately 241 pages with 77,001 words. 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 in...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreBiography And Autobiography, Family And Relationships

QualityEPUB

Size3.7 MB

Pages241

ArchivedSep 14, 2026

Synopsis

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Part poetry, part stage play, part scene vignettes, and part epistolary, the manuscript fiercely confronted secrets and rumors, interrogating the generational trauma of being removed from, discarded by, and distanced from extended family and from la tierra madre, Puerto Rico/Borikén, while constellating my experiences as a descendant of those who survived over five hundred years of ongoing colonization. What becam