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Apples
Apples are Xiomara’s favorite fruit, and they symbolize her complicated relationship with the Catholic Church and its teachings. In Genesis, Eve picking the apple off of the Tree of Knowledge is what brings original…
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The Baby Bracelet
Xiomara’s baby bracelet reads “mi hija”—“my daughter”—on one side and her name on the other, and it symbolizes the complex way that Xiomara’s identity is both connected to and separate from her…
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Xiomara’s Poetry Notebook
Xiomara’s notebook, which is ostensibly the novel itself, is where she pours out all of her true and uncensored thoughts, feelings, and questions about her world and the people in it. Because of this…
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