Dona Maria's Story: Life History, Memory and Political Identity (review)
cannot know whether Reyita is unusual or common, whether her silence about the revolution, despite the fact that one of her sons died in combat during the insurgency period, is in itself a statement. We do not know why Rubiera duped Reyita by nullifying their marriage without her knowledge. We don't know about the stigma of interracial marriage in the pre-revolutionary period, for that matter. Without a historical orientation and annotation, this book to the untrained eye is as informative as cryptic labels on a family album. And along those lines, it is a loving tribute Daisy Rubiera offers her mother.