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Knitting the Fog
Knitting the Fog | Claudia D. Hernndez
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Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Knitting the Fog is the complex self-portrait of a young Chapina girl who wakes up to find her mother gone. When her mother returns three years later, they begin a month-long journey to El Norte. Once settled in California, Claudia has trouble assimilatingshe doesn't speak English, and her Spanish is "weird"but when back in Guatemala, she is startled to find she no longer belongs there either. A harrowing story told with the candid innocence of childhood, Hernndezs memoir depicts the struggle and resilience inherent to immigration today.
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Allylu
Knitting the Fog | Claudia D. Hernndez
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#LetterK #AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks One of my books from Spanish-speaking countries.

Cinfhen I‘m enjoying these daily tags 😊thanks 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 2y
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Allylu
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This is my #DS for #BookSpinBingo for November. One more book for a Bingo! I read this as my Guatemala book in #ReadtheSpanish-speakingWorld challenge put to me by my daughter. It is a memoir of Claudia‘s childhood, her emigration to the US, and her return to Guatemala told in verse and prose. It was an engaging story and I liked it very much. #138 #BookSpinBingo #DS20 #BFC21 #ReadtheSpanish-speakingWorld #RIFHolidayReadingChallenge #CSRC

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! And thank you so much for your kind words on my other post. ❤ Litsy has become the only social media where I feel as though I've actually made friends!! I'm so glad to have “met“ lovely people like you!!! 2y
Allylu @TheAromaofBooks Awww…thanks. 💕📚😊 2y
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Claudia D. Hernández tells the story of her childhood in Guatemala (Mayuelas and Tactic), of moving with her mother to the United States, of returning both places. The story is sometimes poetry, sometimes in multiple languages.⤵️

ReadingEnvy Unlike many immigration stories, her homeland is not a place of violence or conflict (at least not anything understood by the author as a child) so the descriptions of the vibrant culture and close-knit family is felt deeply when it is left, and the confusion of jumping into an unknown culture and language even more difficult. ⤵️ 4y
ReadingEnvy It was interesting to read about how different it is to be from Central America rather than Mexico, to have the "wrong" accent, and to understand more about the wide variety of experiences people come from.

I'm always on the lookout for new books from feministpress and this was in hoopla.
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Annl Thanks for reviewing this. I just got it from hoopla and read the first few pages. I look forward to returning to it this evening. 4y
ReadingEnvy @Annl I hope you enjoy it! 4y
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balletbookworm
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A moving memoir told through essays and poems about the author‘s childhood in Guatemala and migrating to the US at the age of 10. It‘s a very slice-of-life book, full of the details that a child remembers about playing with neighbors, the oddities of the neighborhood, and being raised by strong women.