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	Podcast:		World Views from KGOU
	Episode:		Achy Obejas On Cuba, Rupture And Literature
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-02-16 01:00:00
	Description:		Even though Achy Obejas’s family left Cuba when she was very young, the island nation has an enormous influence on her work. Obejas is a writer, translator and journalist whose novels include Memory Mambo , Days of Awe and Ruins . She has also written collections of stories and poems. Obejas told KGOU’s World Views that Cuba is the subject of her work because she often focuses on rupture. “If it hadn't been for forces outside of our family, my family would have remained in Cuba,” Obejas said. She was six years old when her family fled Cuba, following the Cuban Revolution. Her family assumed they would go back to their home country because, she said, because Cuba went through coup d’états every so often, and everything would eventually return to normal. “No one thought that there was going to be a permanent change,” Obejas said. Her father hoped they would eventually be able to go back to Cuba, so he prohibited English in their home. This irritated Obejas and her brother, even though
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