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Jubana!: The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess
$23.95
This was an absolutely enjoyable book to read. I hope that after the author gets married and has kids, she'll write a follow-up book.

Gigi Anders is the Cuban-born Jewish daughter who had relatives that perished in the Holocaust, and her parents' lives were disrupted not once but twice - once after escaping from Poland and then a second time, when Fidel Castro took over Cuba and her parents, educated upper-class professionals, had no other choice but to flee for their lives to America, once again leaving everything behind to start a new life.

Anders writes of a childhood that she marks as different from her two brothers, who were American-born. She revels in the luxury of being multicultural, trilingual - English, Spanish and Yiddish, as well as culturally Cuban, Jewish and American, and she writes about what it means to be born into one culture but raised in another.

Some of what Anders writes about isn't unique to her own culture, even if she thinks it is - the guilt-tripping mother, the difficult relationship - these are not just Jewish traits, but human traits, and emotions that most women can probably relate to very well. I highly recommend this book.

The Mole
$1.99

Land Awkwardly
$0.99

Moving Less Awkwardly
$19.97
TRACKS:
1. Far From Land
2. Drive
3. Railway
4. Moving Less Awkwardly
5. Might I Be You Man
6. Carry Them Away
7. Let It Go
8. This Time
9. In This Lifetime
10. Lady Of The Winter
11. Better World
12. West Bound Train
13. North Carolina