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What is âidentityâ when youâre a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovahâs Witnesses? The answer isnât easy. You wonât find it in books. And you certainly wonât find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castroâs unmoored life of searching and striving that sheâs turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones.Â
In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detailed perspective on a uniquely troubled young life that reflects on the larger questions each of us faces in a world where diversity and singularity are forever at odds. In the experiences of her pastâhunger and abuse, flight as a fourteen-year-old runaway, single motherhood, the revelations of her âtrueâ ethnic identity, the suicide of her fatherâCastro finds the âjagged, smashed place of edges and fragmentsâ that she pieces together to create an island all her own. Hers is a complicated but very real depiction of what it is to âjump class,â to not belong but to find oneâs voice in the interstices of identity.
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