Comparing Pilar And Cristina Garcia's Dreaming In Cuban

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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother (Italian Proverb). Pilar and Celia’s relationship had such a great bond from being psychic and using that to communicate with each other, how Cuba had such an impact in their lives even though Pilar had been living in New York since the age of 2 and the similar personalities they both had. In Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia focused on the lives of Celia and her family and from her three children and four grandchildren. Especially focused on the relationship that Celia had with her granddaughter, Pilar. It’s strange to think that from a distance a relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter can maintain stable, but it did in the case of Pilar and Celia.
Whether it was true or not,

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