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Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir

Erika Morillo

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#2195 of 3,809 books · #790 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2024).

Mother Archive won the 2024 NBCC Award Finalist recognition. A family murder kept secret, the mysterious disappearance of her father, the systematic erasing of family photographs, a turbulent relationship with her mother, layers of trauma and abuse. In Mother Archive, Erika Morillo reconciles these demons of her past by searching for and seeking out the roots of her family. Intertwining memories with archival family photographs, news clippings, film stills, and artistic images, Morillo revisits her childhood growing up in the Dominican Republic, a place and time riddled with a history of violence and a tradition of erasure. Spanning three generations across three different countries, this memoir works as a map in which the author traces incidents in her family history to help her understand herself and her own experience as a mother.

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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-13
9781609389949
Topics
Family trauma and secretsDominican identity and historyMotherhood and generational memory

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