La Bloga: Las Hijas de Juan and A Land So Strange

Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete. Duke University Press, 2006. 200 plus pages.

Josie Mendez-Negrete tells the story of her mother and her sisters as well as her own story. She tells her story in a straightforward and deep fashion. Total and complete sincerity. She hates her father for what he has done. Josie’s mother married at fifteen and came to live in the United States. Josie’s father was a tyrant. He was also a drunk. He was a figure who wanted total and complete control over the women in his family. He was repeatedly guilty of incest with his daughters. One of the daughters became pregnant and gave birth to her father’s child. Josie’s mother seems to have been in a state of denial. For Josie school was a place where she could escape from her father.”*

*From: labloga.blogspot.com
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