Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico Upper Midwest but in a desperate moment

but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant

and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth

a little girl appears at his bedside

and hope in tumultuous -- even frightening -- times

Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico Upper Midwest but in a desperate momentA searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood 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