![]() ![]() She relates what happened around her and what she did and that she wasn't just sitting on the sidelines and hoping that things would get better. She describes the different fears that were a part of her life, the way people looked after beatings, and her belief in what she was doing. I think my favorite thing about this book is that Aguirre doesn't pull any punches. Certainly, when Carmen was younger, there is not as much mention of the danger, as Carmen herself was not thinking about it at the time. I was surprised that her parents brought Carmen and her sister with them, as it was very dangerous, though Carmen seemed quite happy to be there, so close to her grandparents, as she and her sister were able to travel across the border to visit (though her mother and stepfather were unable to). ![]() There was still some of course, more when Carmen was older. It was shorter and there wasn’t as much politics in it as I was expecting (which, for me, was a good thing!). The book follows Carmen’s life as she grows up to help in the revolution herself, until it comes to an end in 1989 when she’s in her early 20s. When Carmen was 11, she, her mother, her stepfather, and her sister all moved to Bolivia (beside Chile) so they could help with the revolution from there. Carmen was raised in Canada, where her parents had arrived as refugees after being exiled from their native Chile because they were revolutionaries. ![]()
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