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Vida
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Book Summary
Follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong and protective, yet embattled, family. A first novel. Original.
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This book is about:
- Miami (Fla.),
- New Jersey,
- Colombian Americans,
- Man-woman relationships,
- Young women,
- Families,
- Bildungsromans,
- Fiction
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