Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

Author:Cherríe Moraga
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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We knew we had been functioning in the spirit of “last times” for a few years. Although the pretext was a family birthday, my mother’s last trip to my home in Oakland signaled in many ways her final experience within the grander world outside of her home.

In their own house, my parents continued to cope in the best way possible, managing to construct a semblance of a life by simply responding to the requirements of aging: three meals a day, doctor’s visits, and a decent night’s sleep. My mom did her best to stay busy, clothed, and out of the way of the stove’s flame. La familia came to visit, but less and less as my mother’s forgetfulness meant hospitality was reduced to shorter and shorter present-tense sentences, sudden bouts of irritability, and a cup of reheated coffee. It seemed that our extended familia was shrinking in proportion to my mother’s brain, as the disquiet in her heart grew beyond the possibility of remedy or respite.

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