"My own ancestors. I come from poor, landless peasants who left no records. And so I began to read the story of Puerto Rico, and the more I read the story the more I realized I would never find my own ancestors, but I could make my imaginary ancestors. And so the book emerges as a result of my trying to create them, to create the people that might have been."
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On what inspired her to write Conquistadora in āConversation: Esmeralda Santiago, Author of āConquistadoraāā in PBS NEWSHOUR (2011 Aug 12)
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