YD: The structure of this book is really interesting: it’s divided into four parts: Madre Patria, Monstruo, Familia, and Regresando, and bookended by two short essays about girlhood. How did this structure come together and how does it reflect how you want the reader to move through this...
And I, Patria Mercedes? Like every woman of her house, I disappeared into what I loved, coming up now and then for air. I mean, an overnight trip by myself to a girlfriend's, a special set to my hair, and maybe a yellow dress. I had built my house on solid rock, all ...
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And what did Siepi himself, at 27, make of the passions of the aging Spanish king? In the recording of the great aria “Ella giammai m’amò,” Siepi offers an unexpected tenderness for the wife who does not love him, and a sense of dark lullaby in his meditation on his own eternal...
syn: give, confer, grant, present mean that something concrete or abstract is bestowed on one person by another. give is the general word: to give someone a book. confer usu. means to give as an honor or as a favor; it implies courteous and gracious giving: to confer a medal. grant...