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1. Catalina: a novel

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Author:
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla
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Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
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Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
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CORNEJO
Description:
"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow...