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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments Getting Home Alive, Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales, 1986, United States/Puerto Rico, ESSAYS/SHORT STORIES

"Rosario and Aurora Morales are mother and daughter; Rosario was born in Puerto Rico, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who moved to New York when Rosario was young; Aurora was born in New York and as a child moved with her parents to Puerto Rico...Written in alternating voices, these sketches, short stories, and poems, spanning continents, generations, languages, religions, and cultures, celebrate the lives of mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, friends, and family..."

(H.L., p. 250)


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