I am a Spanish-speaking chica, born and raised in Panama, one among dozens of primos, tíos and tías, role models when mothers failed and fathers died—a world I left and […]
Author: Marlena Maduro Baraf
Marlena Maduro Baraf is a cultural hybrid. She immigrated to the United States from her native Panama. Her memoir, At the Narrow Waist of the World, is the story of an insider/outsider life and slow acculturation to the United States.