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The New Yorker: Fiction

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La Brega - The Puerto Rican Experience in Eight Songs

The story appeared in the New Yorker in March of 1973. It was published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin in 1997, and reissued earlier this year. Claire Louise Bennett: "We never really know what went on" La Brega is an island steeped in music from Puerto Rico.

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