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The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights

The Virginia quarterly review, 2019-12, Vol.95 (4), p.38-49

Copyright © Virginia Quarterly Review ;Copyright Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 2019 ;ISSN: 0042-675X ;EISSN: 2154-6932

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  • Title:
    The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights
  • Author: Schorske, Carina del Valle
  • Subjects: Apartments ; Children ; Cities ; Deception ; Families & family life ; Females ; Grandparents ; Hispanic Americans ; Larsen, Nella ; Neighborhoods ; New York ; New York (State) ; Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Is Part Of: The Virginia quarterly review, 2019-12, Vol.95 (4), p.38-49
  • Description: In the apartment upstairs, there was a couple with two girls who arrived from Cuba before the revolution with grandparents, then a sister with her husband and baby. Since my mother was an only child (at least in New York), the Cuban girls-Mayra, Elizabeth, and Yoli-became de facto sisters, so that when they grew up and had girls themselves I would come to call them my cousins. If in the end her father was a bad man, he was also bad on the dance floor (and she was his favorite partner), and if tequila was a problem, the song "Tequila" was a hit, and at seven years old she'd show off door-to-door performing like a whirling dervish in mambo time. Later, a pair of leather gloves or cat-eye sunglasses fished from her bottomless drawer of midcentury glamour, frozen pasteles wrapped in paper, a pineapple peeled whole, gold hoops shaped like hearts, a box of black soaps from Spain. Though my grandmother doesn't speak much anymore, I sometimes ask her what she's thinking while I stroke her hair. Since she's always lying down, she's also always looking up, into a dreamy space I imagine populated by the stories I didn't solicit when I had the chance.
  • Publisher: Charlottesville: University of Virginia
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0042-675X
    EISSN: 2154-6932
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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    ProQuest Central
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