"Eat the Mouth That Feeds You" by Carribean Fragoza.

"Eat the Mouth That Feeds You" by Carribean Fragoza. (City Lights/TNS)

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Carribean Fragoza lives the life she writes — busy, creative and slightly surreal

Carribean Fragoza lives the life she writes — busy, creative and slightly surreal

When Carribean Fragoza was a child, she ate dirt. "Like I ate dirt a lot," she said in a recent video interview. And her tías in Guadalajara, Mexico, really liked eating clay pots. They'd break off little pieces and hand them to her "like they were chocolate." During one of her first prenatal appointments decades later, the obstetrician, concerned about lead in her body, asked Fragoza if she ...

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