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03441aam a2200433 i 4500 001 9E97582E383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240312t20242024nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023029793 020 $a 0553387685 020 $a 9780553387681 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1425977562 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c FFL $d FFL $d OCLCO $d OQX $d JCX $d UAP $d ZGR $d SXP $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCO $d SILO 043 $a nwpr--- $a n-us-nm $a nwpr--- 050 00 $a F496.4.F54 $b A3 2024 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20230712 100 1 $a Figueroa, Jamie, $e author. 245 10 $a Mother island : $b a daughter claims Puerto Rico / $c Jamie Figueroa. 246 30 $a Daughter claims Puerto Rico 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2024] 300 $a xv, 245 pages ; $c 25 cm 505 0 $a The Stories I Haven't Been Told -- Disappeared by Husband, Part I -- Changing Shape, Part I -- La UÌltima Vez -- Religious/Affliction -- Disappeared by Husband, Part II -- Mother Tongues -- Mi Familia or The Spaces in Between -- Changing Shape, Part II. 520 $a "A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by and against a mother who settled into the safety of assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother's string of failed marriages; her own marriage in her early twenties to a man twice her age; how her work as a licensed massage therapist helped her heal her body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother's native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. In stunning prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Figueroa, Jamie. 600 10 $a Figueroa, Jamie $x Travel $z San Juan. $z San Juan. 650 0 $a Puerto Rican women $z Ohio $v Biography. 650 0 $a Puerto Rican women $z Ohio $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $z Ohio. 650 0 $a Puerto Rican women $z Santa Fe $z Santa Fe $v Biography. 650 0 $a Puerto Rican women $z Santa Fe $z Santa Fe $x Ethnic identity. 651 0 $a San Juan (P.R.) $x Social life and customs. 651 0 $a Santa Fe (N.M.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Ohio $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240702032957.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9E97582E383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search