Memoir books from Panama
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Panama for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged. Her mother—a Panamanian immigrant—was too often overwhelmed by the task of raising Veronica and her difficult younger brother on her meager secretary's salary to applaud her daughter's achievements. From an early age, Veronica understood that the best she could do for her mother was to be a perfect child—to rewrite her Christmas wish li... continue