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Jamie Figueroa is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer (Catapult 2021), which was shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, was an Indie Next pick, a Good Morning America must-read book of the month, and was named a most anticipated debut of the year by Bustle, Electric Literature, The Millions, and Rumpus. A member of the faculty in the MFA Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Figueroa has published writing in American Short Fiction, Emergence Magazine, Elle, McSweeney’s, Agni, The New York Times, and the Boston Review, among other publications. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alum, she ...more

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	Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer 3.55 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico 3.93 avg rating — 154 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's Issue 53 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Chelsea Bieker (Goodreads Author), Daniel Gumbiner 4.02 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories: Writers of Color 2023 by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jinwoo Chong (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Risë Kevalshar Collins (Contributor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic of Community Singing How Singing Can Help With Depression 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I don't remember feeling lonely. I remember adapting to the torture of being isolated. At a certain point, I learned to take it with me everywhere I went.”
― Jamie Figueroa, Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

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“I don't remember how many times I tried to learn Spanish to connect with my mother. The words in my textbooks were not the same as the ones she knew.”
― Jamie Figueroa, Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

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“Which of us has suffered more?”
― Jamie Figueroa, Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

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