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The Scent of the Armoires. It is a compilation of the stories of two families told by the grandparents over and over to their granddaughter as a young child, who keeps them in her memory and now as an adult she tells them. This novel is like a bouquet of fresh flowers of all types, smells, and colors. In it the author delights us with adventures, tragedies, mysteries, tears, laughter, thefts, forbidden loves, infidelities, regrets, forgiveness, compassion, and faith. Some stories occurred more than a hundred and fifty years ago, others are more recent, but they all could be stories of the present. A NOVEL WELL WORTH READING!
"Raising the Living Dead is a new history of Puerto Rico's carceral rehabilitation system in the middle decades of the twentieth century that brings to life the interactions of incarcerated people, their wider social networks, and health care professionals. The book addresses key issues in the history of prisons and the histories of medicine and belief, including how prisoners' different racial, class, and cultural identities shaped their incarceration and how professionals living in a colonial society dealt with the challenge of rehabilitating prisoners for citizenship. The main idea of the book is that, in the region, multiple communities of care came together both inside and outside of pr...