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She told me to stay very still so I wouldn't sprout horns. . . . I was somewhere between taciturn and happy gazing into the mirror as if approaching the edge of a cliff . . . and I watched myself in the deep, transparent veil of this night of all nights. Many of the themes expressed in this vignette--cultural dissonance, family, and community--are poetically intertwined throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet in My Hands\u003c\/i\u003e. Agosin takes us on a personal journey of discovery that is as much internal reflection as an exodus across continents and decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Agosin's childhood and early adolescence were spent with her Jewish family in Chile. While her family raised her to regard her Jewish heritage with loving awareness, they also participated in the dominant Catholic culture--an aunt organized Easter egg hunts and her mother admired the beauty of Chile's Catholic churches. The young Agosin became keenly aware of her dual identity in her country, both as a participant and an outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The second half of \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet in My Hands\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the events that forced her family to emigrate to America: the overthrow of Salvador Allende by General Augusto Pinochet. Agosin writes of her new life in Athens, Georgia, of the sudden loss of all that was familiar. Ostracized as an emigrant--a non-white with a strange foreign accent--her high school years were made even more painful by the news from Chile: prisoners taken and classmates disappearing or shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Years later, Agosin goes back to Chile and she travels there with her own children. As she stares down at her old homeland from the plane, she writes: Why do I love this place that forced us into exile, that punished my father for being a Jew? And in the final chapter of \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet in My Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, this award-winning poet addresses two important topics: her current residence in New England and the central role of writing and literature in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50029460848913,"sku":"CIN081352704XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53593240568081,"sku":"CIN081352704XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/081352704X.jpg?v=1751011112"},{"product_id":"dream-of-light-and-shadow-book-marjorie-agosn-9780826316332","title":"Dream of Light and Shadow","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50317303513361,"sku":"CIN0826316336G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826316336.jpg?v=1751329637"},{"product_id":"happiness-book-marjorie-agosn-9781877727344","title":"Happiness","description":"In this compelling collection of 44 stories, first published in Chile in 1991, Agosin explores such themes as relationships and class conflicts among Latin American women, being Jewish within a predominantly Catholic culture, political oppression, and childhood. The stories, often as short as a page and a half, are powerful and intuitive. The author, a prolific poet and fiction writer in both Spanish and English, has also edited two excellent anthologies of short stories by Latin American women, 'Landscapes of a New Land' and 'Secret Weavers', as well as a collection of essays on torture as it affects women and children. 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