JuanitJuanit tells the story of a girl of mixed ancestry who, after losing her mother at a young age, is uprooted from her home in Guam and moved to California in the 1960s. There she must navigate both sides of her identity. Confused and longing for acceptance, Juanit struggles to find genuine affection. A series of painful events lead her back to Guam, only to discover that she feels out of place there, too. Will Juanit make peace with her identity and

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this directive remained unimplemented and unknown to Guam’s elected officials

“In this haunting debut collection

Writing from the authoritative vantage point as hågan håga’ “blood daughter

A Marianas Mosaic features authors in and of the Mariana Islands writing in voices that range from scholarly to poetic about the social

This publication also reminds us that unattended wounds can fester

Throughout the journal are lines of poetry from the book Dry Nights by Pep Borja

These stories include the most recent reconstruction of the gothic-style church in 1933 with hand tools and volunteer labor including from women and children who gathered rocks and washed sea salt from the beach sand

It represents a wave of CHamoru music committed to uplifting the CHamoru people and culture

the largest and busiest air port in the world at that time

let the healing continue

bringing the war to a sudden and climactic end