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"Luiselli dipped in and out among her guests, serving mulled wine as school-aged children from Still Waters in a Storm, an educational center in Brooklyn focused on reading and writing, prepared to perform an original musical adapted from Cervantes’ 'Don Quixote.' The children had worked with the center’s founder, Stephen Haff, to translate the book from the Spanish and write songs reinterpreting the story with a chorus of migrant children."
~ C. de Leon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/valeria-luiselli-lost-children-archive.html
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"Luiselli first left Mexico at the age of 2, when her father moved the family to Madison, Wis., to complete his doctorate. From there, her father’s work as a diplomat took them to Costa Rica, South Korea and South Africa, where they arrived in 1994, shortly after Mandela’s historic election. By then, her mother had left the family to join the Zapatista movement in Mexico. 'I come from a matriarchal line of women who have always been very involved politically and socially,' she said, referring also to her grandmother, who worked with indigenous communities in Puebla, Mexico."
~ C. de Leon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/valeria-luiselli-lost-children-archive.html
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