Frank X. Gaspar talks about challenges and satisfactions of writing about Portuguese-American experience

Acclaimed poet and novelist Frank X. Gaspar is the first to tell you that every facet of his life was probably shaped by his upbringing in the ever-changing social environment of Provincetown, Mass., in the 1950s and 1960s.

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