!Jibara!

Carmen de Monteflores brings her intimate knowledge of Puerto Rican culture and history to this story of a rural mountain girla jbarastruggling to become a teacher during the turbulent changes of the 1930s in the island. After a devastating hurricane, Juanita and her mother, Cisa, to whom she is fiercely attached, are forced to move to San Juan to find work. Like many others arriving from the coun...