![]() ![]() But in Los Angeles, Claudia has trouble assimilating: she doesn’t speak English, and her Spanish sticks out as “weird” in their primarily Mexican neighborhood. Three years later, her mother returns for her daughters, and the family begins the month-long journey to El Norte. Claudia and her two older sisters are taken in by their great aunt and their grandmother, their father no longer in the picture. ![]() Seven-year-old Claudia wakes up one day to find her mother gone, having left for the United States to flee domestic abuse and pursue economic prosperity. Hernández’s lyrical debut follows her tumultuous adolescence and fraught homecomings as she crisscrosses the American continent. ![]() Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Claudia D. ![]()
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