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[2004]
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"I began life, it would seem, as some kind of Grimms fairy tale creature, large and oafish, undesirable, grossly imperfect. Neatly penned in my baby book were the words, Debbie was a fat, unattractive baby. Thus begins the harrowing and inspiring story of Debrah Constance. Despite a life fraught with cycles of abuse and addiction, cancer and catastrophe, Debrah defied the odds, never losing hope in herself or humanity. Her story is one of triumph:...
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2006.
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Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete's story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco,...
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