Another riveting novel (her third) by Ms. Hernandez. Alma is a film editor for a True Crime series. An assignment to edit video information about the Scarborough Stalker triggers flashbacks to when Alma was a child, a 10-14-year-old, when her community was terrorized. Although female resilience is a worthy outcome, the ugly face of misogyny, romantic power struggles and generalized complicity in rape culture produces a gritty and disturbing story.
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The Story Of Us – Catherine Hernandez
The author of the acclaimed Scarborough now is writing about MG, a Filipina caregiver with problematic times as a nanny in Hong Kong and Canada. Her story turns dramatically when MG begins to care for Liz, a transgender woman with Alzheimer’s, to become an achingly beautiful homage to resilience and inclusion. Finally, the story is told from a unique point-of-view, a brilliant literary device which shall remain a mystery until the book is read.
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