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a neighborhood loan shark who teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility

But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City

when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Binding:Hardcover border-crossing fever dream of aLonglisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culturefrom Beyonc to Game of Thronesto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism. Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Anglica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmothers story,