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"As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Cherríe Moraga
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250251176
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