Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Raquel Cepeda

nonfiction biography memoir race challenging informative slow-paced

336 pages | first published 2013

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In 2009, when Raquel Cepeda almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was terrified she’d never know the truth about her ancestry. Every time she looked in the mirror, Cepeda saw a mystery—a tapestry of races and ethnicities that came...
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