[DeepL Translation - needs review] Even as a very young child, she spoke Spanish with her mother, English with her father, and a mixture of both with her sister, when no one could hear them. Then came French, as a sort of recovery of the language her mother had inherited from her parents and then lost. Each language came to occupy different spaces and to be tinged with different affectivities. Then came the years of study in France, and then the settlement in the United States. But the narra...
