Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

by Jamie Figueroa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553387685
• ISBN13: 9780553387681
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"