the morning it is sunda april 9th. donald trump s arraignment las tuesday was a singular momen in american history. never before has an american president been charged i connection with the crime. but the manhattan district attorney s criminal charge against trump barely scratch the surface of the legal troubles that he is facing it s not even the only pending case involving him in new york this week trump is expecte back in new york for a deposition related to a civi suit filed for the new yor state attorney general letitia james. last september, she filed a 25 dollar lawsuit against trump his three eldest - accusing them of fraudulen business practices 60 days from now, a trial is - in one of the two civi lawsuits filed against donal trump by the author an columnist e. jean carroll. a few years ago carole published a book in which sh accused trump of raping her in a dressing room in a luxur department store back in the mid 1990s. trump denied these accusations say they ve
they shot at everyone. you can see the trees yeah, in the trees, it s everywhere. on april, two, i came here as well, already in bucha self. and the first place, i was here on this square. and here i can show you photos, i have photos of my library. you was one car with a killed man inside. that was a man who worked in bucha for, like, park maintenance, and humor was trying to take wounded people to the hospital. and he transported several, then he again came back. he was killed right here by russians. there was a car with his buddy inside. and here was another car which he just smashed with a person inside. oh my gosh, there was a person inside? yeah, yeah, powerful. if you are pointing out the bullet tore holes in the trees, it looks normal. it looks normal, right. it looks like a suburban community. people going about their business. it s early morning now. you can see traffic is happening. explain that to me because when you are in kyiv it looks normal and
deemed unacceptable, inappropriate, and then take off shelves. but to condemn a book that has so much to offer any reader, and one that shows with th american dream truly looks like, depicts what it means to be an immigrant and part of a family and to grow up as a woman, jus because it might fee uncomfortable for some readers that is just wrong no one is protected when books like how the garcia girls lost their accents gets banned. i am joined now by julia alvarez, they were subpoenae the national medal of arts fro then president barack obama, and author of today s velshi banned book club, how th garcia girls lost thei accents. welcome, julia thank you for joining us thank, you ali. so much. and for that introduction, you make me want to read the book! that s the, point we want everybody to that let s start with chapte one. yolanda visits the dominican republic and tries to reclai her roots. she gets a flat tire while gathering guava s in the
however, i came to the realization that the reason and my father acted the way he did was out of insecurity. this is a 13, 14 year old girl you know and you can go to therapy for lifetime to get this kind of bringing i home and i m sure she has read othe books, about conflicts with he father but because she wrote t me, and she saw it play out, she made a leap and it lit u her world. she understood and that, i don t want to soun like i don t appreciate al kinds of readers and all kinds of affirmations, but that trul hits home, that is me at her age. but i did not have garcia girl to read. that is exactly what so man of our authors say they almost write it for their
to understand that complexit is important so that they feel that there i not a right in a wrong way t be that it is a process it is a process that is complex, and when she work i all out evolves into whateve your identity is and ultimately, how the garcia girls lost their accents is story about identity, which is illustrated in the man nicknames that yolanda goes by joe, - yo yo and yo when she says quote, i would never find somebody woul understand my particular mix o catholicism and agnosticism, hispanic and american styles and quote. tell us about this it is again part and parcel of what you are doing, but yoland in one character is multiple identities well, and i think that is true for all of us we carry many cells around and if you say this is a novel about identity, identity is no a done deal. here i am, here at 73 years old,