My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Author:Sonia Sotomayor [Sotomayor, Sonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Lawyers & Judges, Women
ISBN: 9780307962164
Google: IdomwSnKUO0C
Amazon: B00957T7CQ
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

UNDER A BANNER reading “Feliz Navidad,” we had set out the stacking chairs for the patients, and on the folding tables we’d arranged a bounty of pasteles and arroz con gandules. This was not an audience you could expect to settle down and listen attentively, but when Dolores strummed the strings of her guitar, the harsh fluorescent light seemed somehow to soften. We mustered some Spanish carols, Nuyorican aguinaldos. But it was when she turned to old Mexican favorites that Dolores’s voice truly shone as she serenaded those broken souls on a silent winter night in New Jersey:

Dicen que por las noches

no más se le iba en puro llorar …*

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