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Cambria-gordonCambria Gordon’s family sabbatical in Madrid in 2016-2017 became more than a time away from her native Los Angeles; Gordon felt her identity—as a writer and as a Jew with both Ashkenazi and Sephardi influences—expand. She launched into a journey of research and inquiry that led to the writing and publication of her new book, The Poetry of Secrets (Scholastic, February 2021).
The Poetry of Secrets is a fictional dive into 1481’s Madrid, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition and before the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. The book’s 16-year-old heroine, Isabel, a poet and seeker of romance, is independent and artistic in a society that doesn’t support divergence from its young women. Issues of faith and class are central to the story, and at every turn lurks the danger of the Inquisition. Isabel and her family are New Christians, Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity, but who secretly maintained Jewish observances. Also known as
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