博客來What is ��dentity��when you��e a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah�� Witnesses? The answer isn�� easy. You won�� find it in books. And you certainly won�� find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro�� unmoored life of searching and striving that she�� turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones.
In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detailed perspective on a uniquely troubled young life that reflects on the larger questions each of us faces in a world where diversity and singularity are forever at odds. In the experiences of her past��unger and abuse, flight as a fourteen-year-old runaway, single motherhood, the revelations of her ��rue��ethnic identity, the suicide of her father��astro finds the ��agged, smashed place of edges and fragments��that she pieces together to create an island all her own. Hers is a complicated but very real depiction of what it is to ��ump class,��to not belong but to find one�� voice in the interstices of identity.
