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Adriana: Helena Maria Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels: Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came with.

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Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories; Under the Feet of Jesus, a novel; and the co-editor, with Maria Herrera Sobek, of two collections: Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Filmand Chicana Creativity and Criticism. Her latest novel, Their Dogs Came With Them, will be published by Atria Books this week.

Viramontes was born in East Los Angeles into an already large family that always extended itself to relatives and friends who had crossed the border from Mexico to California. After graduating from James A. Garfield High School, she attended Immaculate Heart College, and worked part time at the bookstore and library to help pay for her education. Viramontes took a job as a bottler at the Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery while taking graduate classes at California State University, Los Angeles. She received first prize for her fiction in the college’s Statementliterary magazine.

A few years later, Viramontes won First Prize in UC-Irvine's Chicano Literary Fiction Competition. She then entered the Graduate Writing program at UCI, but left in 1981 and began

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It’s all so idyllic, you might be wondering, Don’t these sisters disagree about anything? But collaboration comes easily to the pair: “It’s always better to have more options to choose from, more ideas,” says Helena. Their individual styles have had varying effects on the space. Lucia sways more toward an “eclectic, cozy, and vintage” look, while Helena claims to be the risk-taker of the two. Weathered and worn vintage decor lives harmoniously with clean and modern pieces. Case in point: how the Maison du Monde dining table and bench are complemented by a set of thrifted woven chairs.

The loft’s white wooden beams and glass walkway upstairs bring a whimsical dimension to the space.

But, it’s not always fun and games. “Sometimes living together is hard because we are very different, but Lucia is also my best friend…so never mind.” Looks like communication is key in this household and it shows in the cohesion of the space. “I love to be home,” Helena gushes. “The best part is getting to live with your best friend.” Talk about a perfect setup.

As they hang by their dining ta

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After a 40-year struggle, indigenous guardians of Indonesian forest gain rights over their land

On the morning of November 7^th, 2019, Apai Janggut put on his red kelambi, a traditional Iban handwoven vest, in one of the 28 rooms in the Sungai Utik Long House. In front of him were several plates of pop rice topped with a single egg—one for every room—lined up in rows on colourful pieces of cloth.

A man of 80-something years, Apai looked incredibly calm. Nothing about him, other than his long white beard, revealed his stature or the history he had forged the last forty years living in the remote forests of Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan.

In his years as customary chief of the long house, a role he inherited from his father, he and his tribe had defended the rainforest they depended on from being bought over or destroyed by industry and illegal loggers since the 1980s.

Till today, the forest carries no sounds of whirring chainsaws, nor a trace of the large palm oil or rubber plantations that have subsumed the surrounding villages.

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