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"I felt guilty for being the chosen one": Ada Ferrer on her memoir about leaving Cuba

When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer's mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision's reverberations across generations of her family.

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Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a national correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America.
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