Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico: Jamie Figueroa nada-hidden and legacy—set against the upheaval

and legacy—set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyond

put those pesky Lords of Night back to sleep forever

And that the man I’ve vowed eternal commitment to

corpse handlers transmit their wills to an army of brainless bodies—once living people now rendered expendable

with every day that passes

Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico: Jamie Figueroa nada-hidden and legacy—set against the upheavalA 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