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The Cruel Country (Paperback)
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The Cruel Country (Paperback)
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List price R574
Loot Price R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
You Save R91 (16%)
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"I am learning the alchemy of grief-how it must be carefully
measured and doled out, inflicted-but I have not yet mastered this
art," writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly
textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer's return
to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with
late-stage lung cancer. Cofer's work has always drawn strength from
her life's contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities
and demands of both English and Spanish, her travels between and
within various mainland and island subcultures, and the challenges
of being a Latina living in the U.S. South. Interlaced with these
far-from-common tensions are dualities we all share: our lives as
both sacred and profane, our negotiation of both child and adult
roles, our desires to be the person who belongs and also the person
who is different. What we discover in The Cruel Country is how much
Cofer has heretofore held back in her vivid and compelling writing.
This journey to her mother's deathbed has released her to tell the
truth within the truth. She arrives at her mother's bedside as a
daughter overcome by grief, but she navigates this cruel country as
a writer-an acute observer of detail, a relentless and insistent
questioner.
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