Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include I Lived on Butterfly Hill, The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill, Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez.

A beautiful tale of fortitude, captured in filigree and song."--Oscar Hijuelos "Marjorie Agosín's poetic voice in one breath captures the astounding beauty of the southern tip of the world and the painful memories of a sensitive Jewish girl growing up among Nazi colonizers."--Isabel Allende"Unique and mesmerizing. . . . A Cross and a Star reads like a journey to the past and the hope of the new world."--Elena Poniatowska"A passionate, fantastical, poetic book: Marjorie Agosín's power as a poet has never been more evident than in this beautiful memoir of her mother's life."--Sara Paretsky

Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include I Lived on Butterfly Hill, The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill, Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez.

A beautiful tale of fortitude, captured in filigree and song."--Oscar Hijuelos "Marjorie Agosín's poetic voice in one breath captures the astounding beauty of the southern tip of the world and the painful memories of a sensitive Jewish girl growing up among Nazi colonizers."--Isabel Allende"Unique and mesmerizing. . . . A Cross and a Star reads like a journey to the past and the hope of the new world."--Elena Poniatowska"A passionate, fantastical, poetic book: Marjorie Agosín's power as a poet has never been more evident than in this beautiful memoir of her mother's life."--Sara Paretsky

Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include I Lived on Butterfly Hill, The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill, Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez.

A beautiful tale of fortitude, captured in filigree and song."--Oscar Hijuelos "Marjorie Agosín's poetic voice in one breath captures the astounding beauty of the southern tip of the world and the painful memories of a sensitive Jewish girl growing up among Nazi colonizers."--Isabel Allende"Unique and mesmerizing. . . . A Cross and a Star reads like a journey to the past and the hope of the new world."--Elena Poniatowska"A passionate, fantastical, poetic book: Marjorie Agosín's power as a poet has never been more evident than in this beautiful memoir of her mother's life."--Sara Paretsky