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The Noise of Infinite Longing : A Memoir of a Family and an Island by Torregrosa, Luisita Lopez is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A beautifully written memoir about a Puerto Rican family, whose siblings reunite for the first time upon their mother's death, after having scattered to various places and various lives after they reached early adulthood. It is also a universal story about family connections and what happens to them as we grow up. Writing with great honesty and lyrical prose, Luisita Lpez Torregrosa gives us an incandescent memoir exploring the meaning of family connections and what happens to them as we grow up. The Noise of Infinite Longing is about a Puerto Rican family, its origins, its place in society, its illusions and, finally, what happened when the family dispersed, its members moving in different directions. It is a story unlike any others about the passage of Puerto Ricans and other Latin Americans to countries not their own. But it is, in every sense, a universal story - of personal and cultural roots that are too strong to be completely severed, and of the passionate and anguished search for what we call home. The book opens with the death of Luisita's mother, which brought together in one place, for the first time in almost ten years, all six of her children. Over four days of funera

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Author

Torregrosa, Luisita Lopez

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061570940

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Language Learning, Memoir