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MUDDY CUP A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America By Barbara Fischkin Scribners, $24 Reviewed by PHILIP HERTER
The current debate over immigration, usually expressed in terms of what "they" want from "us," is starved for particulars that could help frame the discussion. In 1986, Barbara Fischkin, a reporter for New York Newsday, began a series of articles chronicling the struggles of "typical" immigrants making their way to America. The result is Muddy Cup, the story of the Almontes - Javier, Roselia and three children - journeying from the Dominican countryside to the wilds of New York City. Spinning a universal parable from threads of the...