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I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

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What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

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I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

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One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

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Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

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Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

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My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls.

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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 20th, 1954

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