It is 1981 and Daphne is 12 years old when the proverbial stranger comes to town, the opening incident of Lisa Smith’s ...

The author herself was neither Mexican nor an immigrant, though she did have a Puerto Rican grandmother – a fact revealed in the febrile debate over ethnicity, and its fictional representation, that ...

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