- SKU: 9781609389932
- BARCODE: 9781609389932
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir - Paperback
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Description
by Erika Morillo (Author)
2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlist, Nonfiction
2024 NBCC Award Finalist, Autobiography A family murder kept secret, the mysterious disappearance of her father, the systematic erasing of family photographs, a turbulent relationship with her mother, layers of trauma and abuse. In Mother Archive, Erika Morillo reconciles these demons of her past by searching for and seeking out the roots of her family. Intertwining memories with archival family photographs, news clippings, film stills, and artistic images, Morillo revisits her childhood growing up in the Dominican Republic, a place and time riddled with a history of violence and a tradition of erasure.Spanning three generations across three different countries, this memoir works as a map in which the author traces incidents in her family history to help her understand herself and her own experience as a mother.
Author Biography
Erika Morillo is a photographer and writer born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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