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This is a raw and powerful memoir of life as a member of the impoverished and exploited class. In 1983, a young indigenous Guatemalan woman narrated her story to an anthropologist. She tells of growing up in an isolated mountain community, so isolated that none spoke Spanish or another indigenous language. Illiterate, shoeless, often hungry, she tells of working from dawn to dusk to eke out a small crop, of working on coffee and cotton plantations under slave conditions, and of the gradual radic
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Mar 31, 2016
Kai Coates
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