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Alternating between Vera's past and present, the reader sees into the life of a young woman whose father has died and whose mother is abusive, perhaps not by the standards of the time (the late 1950s) but it sets Vera on a path that ultimately leads her to be working for the CIA in Buenos Aires during the coup of 1966. Vera is a lesbian at a time when homosexuality was illegal so her ability to lie about who she is has been embedded deeply within her psyche. This makes it easy for her to pretend
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Aug 04, 2018
Jessie
marked it as to-read
