Mayra Binding:Hardcover She yearns to be free

She yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village and thinks she's found her way out when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her schooling

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Mayra Binding:Hardcover She yearns to be freeAn eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Floridas swamplands. A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel.Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Its been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Hialeah, a Cuban neighborhood just west of Miami, for