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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781590513231
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip
of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar,
granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for
Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of
Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and
served twenty-seven years in prison. In The Ladies’ Gallery, Vilar
revisits the legacy of her grandmother and that of her anguished
mother, who leaped to her death from a speeding car when Vilar was
eight.
Eleven years after her mother’s death, Vilar awakens in a
psychiatric hospital after her own suicide attempt and begins to
face the devastating inheritance of abandonment and suicide passed
down from her grandmother and mother. The familial pattern of
self-destruction flings open the doors to her national inheritance
and the search for identity. Alternating between Vilar’s notes from
the ward and the unraveling of her family’s secrets, this lyrical
and powerful memoir of three generations of Puerto Rican women is
urgent, impassioned, and unforgettable.
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