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stories patched together from memory or mis-memory or conjecture or family folklore or logical deduction or an empty space where a memory should be

stories fragmented by location / dislocation

the non-linear quality of the book perfectly mirrors how memories come disconnected from a before or after

this incomplete memory, not in any order of time or place, is also how I remember or fail to remember

she writes in first person at times and in 3rd person at other times, reflecting how she sometimes sees herself from a distance

final chapter is very moving and should be read in one sitting

She could not conceive what it must have been like for the conquistadors, to believe that wherever you went, you were a god.