Our family grew—from the three siblings left in the wake of our mother’s death—to a bustling bunch of kinsmen redeemers.
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James T. Farmer,
Southern Living,
8 July 2025
Rediscovering his family’s ancestral land centuries after the religious wars forced those kinsmen to flee, our caballero soon steps in to protect a local clan from an oppressive landowner and his abusive henchmen.
For the trucker who’s wiring part of his paycheck to his parents in Mexico, the nurse who’s supporting her siblings in Nigeria, or the Afghan interpreter who’s helping his cousins resettle, the tax is a penalty on one of the purest expressions of human freedom: ...
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Brayden Myers,
National Review,
18 July 2025
Collins will play Louis, White Sun’s good-natured and levelheaded cousin.
Ancestors and descendants dance at the perimeter of Harjo’s poems, and her definition of relative is wide enough to hold every living thing—panthers, raccoons, tobacco plants.
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The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2025
Look out for others: Stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
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KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
23 July 2025
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