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there are just a lot of stories that I hope won’t be lost. I want to be sure that this legacy remains, even though it’s a miniature community and may… - Ruth Behar
" "there are just a lot of stories that I hope won’t be lost. I want to be sure that this legacy remains, even though it’s a miniature community and maybe not of great interest to everybody in the world. Especially for writers like myself, who come from minority backgrounds—we’re trying to fill in absences or gaps. There was obviously no literature like Tia Fortuna when I was growing up. There’s this very large Jewish Latino community in Miami, but they’re just not represented in literature. I felt that was a gap that I could fill.
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About Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar (born 1956) is an anthropologist and writer. She was born in Cuba before later immigrating to the USA, and is Jewish. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction.
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