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“LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT” "Women are stronger than men. They just are.” So begins the foreword to Reina’s account of his mother’s flight from Cuba, bound for Colombia – pregnant and alone, his father’s escape from political arrest by Castro, and his family’s early years in the States. Reina’s stark recollections are at times humorous, at others sad, but told with shameless candor. His writing is in touch with the turmoil of his childhood and of childhood, generally. “No one is exempt from childhood wounds. Just as scarred skin shapes each emerging layer, our early wounds shape us – unwittingly – to graft their remnants on our successors.” |