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The Arranged Marriage

Poems

2015 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Poetry (Adult Nonfiction)

Jehanne Dubrow
University of New Mexico Press (Mar 1, 2015)
Softcover $18.95 (72pp)
978-0-8263-5553-9

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In The Arranged Marriage, Jehanne Dubrow explores her mother's Jewish-Latina upbringing in Honduras, El Salvador, and southern Florida. The Arranged Marriage uses the prose poem to explore hybrid identities and to represent different forms of forced intimacy and closeness.