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The House on the Lagoon

The House on the Lagoonis the story of Isabel Monfort and her husband Quintin Mendizabal—the history of a family whose secrets, conflicts and private mythologies add up to the larger story of a nation: Puerto Rico.

Themes
diversitysaga
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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