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[plin]

first I am an L.A. Rican (puertorican born in los angeles) years ago, an uncle of mine lent me a book about Lolita Lebron and I have not been able to find the book anywhere and cannot even remember the name of it...if anyone out there knows of any books concerning Lolita Lebron would they let me know..Muchas Gracias.....I now live in Las Vegas, Nevada....not too many Boriquas here....thanks again...

[xlordt]

check it see if ya can remember

title:
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a bit about the story:

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Vilar attempted suicide with gas and razors at age 18 in 1988, while she was a student at Syracuse University in New York, where she had just arrived from her native Puerto Rico. This desperate act, she suggests in a lyrical, intense memoir, flowed from a familial pattern of self-destructiveness and tragedy. In 1954, her grandmother, militant Puerto Rican nationalist and self-styled revolutionary martyr Lolita Lebron, shot and wounded several congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives, for which she spent 27 years in prison. In 1977, Lebron's erratic daughter, Gladys Mendez (the author's mother), while suffering from uterine cancer, leaped to her death from a car being driven by her womanizing husband, as eight-year-old Vilar tried to restrain her. The author moves freely among various topics and settings: her stay in a mental hospital after her own suicide attempt; her education in a New Hampshire experimental private school and a convent school in Spain; her sexual awakening; a miscarriage; letting go of residual guilt over the death of her mother. Though rambling and tinged with emotional confusion, her compelling story introduces a fresh, pointed voice, filled with telling insights into Latino identity, Puerto Rican history and the search for self.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc

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