This story is about a girl. Teresa. It begins in 1975, when she’s only twelve. She’s just left her homeland, Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony, now riven by revolution and madness. In the wake of civil war, fear and terror crack open Teresa’s idyllic childhood. Even the family pets act distraught. Granny no longer tends to her roses. Everybody starts sleeping in the same room, afraid of knives in the night. They must flee the land they have …
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Sometimes it is your children who tell you stories. As happened the other day, when Pedro told me a story he was clearly impressed with. “Mom” he asked “have you ever heard of a singer called Rodriguez?”. At first I thought he was joking with me “Rodriguez? Just that? No…”. But he went on: “Mom, it’s an amazing story”. And I sat down to listen. Rodriguez (later I learned his full name is Sixto Rodriguez) was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Mexican …
