The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir Henry Hitchings Evaluating a Passage

Evaluating a Passage

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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir Henry Hitchings Evaluating a Passage"Startling and astringently poetic." The New York Times An extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street, Child of the Dark, and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood defined by uprootedness and migration Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogot with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by her mother, she moved with her sister to