Description Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the l950s and 1960s, Marlena depends on her many t os and t as for refuge from the difficulties of life, including the frequent absences of her troubled mother.
This lyrical coming-of-age Memoir explores the intense and profound relat.
As a teenager, she pulls away from this centered world--crossing borders--and begins a life in the United States very different from the one she has known.
Description Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the l950s and 1960s, Marlena depends on her many t os and t as for refuge from the difficulties of life, including the frequent absences of her troubled mother
