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Sandra Rodriguez Barron

Sandra Rodriguez Barron is the author of The Heiress of Water, winner of the International Latino Book Award for debut fiction. The recipient of a Bread Loaf Fellowship and a National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant, she was born in Puerto Rico, lived in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, and now lives with her family in Connecticut.

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Stay with Me Stay with Me
In 1979, five toddlers were found alone in a luxury boat tied to a dock...

Interview

Q: As a writer, what interests you in a novel?
A: A novel allows you to get to know characters in the most intimate way, to hear their private thoughts, to witness their joys, fears, shames. Unless you're eavesdropping, reading a novel is the only time you get to know what other people talk about behind closed doors. It provides a way to view another mind, and therefore, another world.

Q: Is there a part of you in Monica Winters?
A: I would have a lot of biographical facts in common with Monica, and we...

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