.. the whole book. First of all, it was so long; second of all, it was, you know, very risqué. You know, the... the woman, the regent's wife, "la Regenta," has an affair with the... the "monsignor," the priest in this little city, Oviedo, in the northern part of Spain. I ate it up, but my father had like a reading program for me. He would say: "This summer you can read 'La Regenta,' that summer you c ....
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The mother was born in Valencia in 1945, but at the age of six she moved to Madrid with her family because of the work of her father, a Republican professor and intellectual who had taken a competitive examination to work at the Complutense University. Ten years later, the family moved again, again because of her father's academic career and this time to the United States. There, the interviewee was opened to a world of educational and social possibilities that she had not had in Spain and she experienced an amazing personal growth. For this reason, she managed to stay in the country when the family had to return to Spain. She also says that her father always spoke in Valencian to her and to hers, her brother, as an act of resistance and vindication during and after the dictatorship. She talks about her school experiences as the daughter of a progressive republican family that had to go to Catholic schools in Spain. She explains how when she arrived in the United States, her parents had difficulties in accepting, for her daughter, the greater freedom that young women in that country enjoyed. She describes her life of her continual transfers as the wife of an American military and her determination to return to school after having her two daughters. She talks about her personal changes during the years of her marriage, her divorce, how she felt with the arrival of democracy in Spain, and how the dictatorship and the Transition permeated her career as a teacher and her researcher. She is now retired and a fiction writer. She lives in Philadelphia and travels frequently to Spain. Her daughter was born in the United States in 1967, lives in Pennsylvania and is also a teacher.
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