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Podcast: New Books in Latino Studies
Episode: The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez
Description: Today’s book is: The Things We Didn’t Know (Gallery Books, 2024), by Dr. Elba Iris Pérez’s. A cross-cultural coming-of-age story, The Things We Didn’t Know is inspired by the author’s own experiences growing up between Woronoco, Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico. It explores Andrea RodrÃguez’s childhood between Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town. Andrea RodrÃguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with...