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Alternating between Irene Vilar's notes from the psychiatric ward and her recounting of her family history, this is a meditation on family, and on the unspoken currents that have haunted a grandmother, mother and daughter. March 1, 1945: Lolita Lebron, a young Puerto Rican nationalist, opens fire on the United States House of Representatives, proclaiming, I did not come here to kill, I came here to die. She is sentenced to life in prison. March 1, 1977: after attending her son's wedding in Puerto Rico, Gladys Mendez (Lebron's daughter) leaps to her death from a speeding car driven by her philandering husband, despite her eight-year-old daughter's desperate attempts to restrain her. February 1, 1988: recently arrived from Puerto Rico to attend Syracuse University, Irene Vilar (granddaughter of Lebron and daughter of Mendez) is committed to Hutchings Psychiatric Hospital following a suicide attempt.
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A razor-sharp memoir about the allure of suicide for three generations of women in one Puerto Rican family, A Message from God in the Atomic Age delves into the frightening secrets that have haunted a grandmother, mother, and daughter, alternating between Vilar's notes from the psychiatric ward and her recounting of her family history. of photos.
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- ÉditeurGranta Books
- Date d'édition1997
- ISBN 10 1862070148
- ISBN 13 9781862070141
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages334
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