![]() One meaning of her last name is lost places. ![]() While based in Paris as a reporter for The New York Times in 2003, Carvajal and her family traveled to villages in the south of Spain where her ancestors might have lived. By the time Carvajal was interested in asking questions, her grandmother and aunt, who held the family secrets, were no longer alive. Another hint: her grandfather never attended church services and scorned priests. Her parents didn’t talk much about their background, probably, she says, because they didn’t have much information to share. She had a book tracing her father’s family for 11 generations back to Spain, but she had no idea why it left. She knew that her family on her father’s side had made its way from Spain to Costa Rica, where her grandparents were born, to California. ![]() Caught up in other ambitions, she didn’t pay much attention.Ĭarvajal grew up in California with rosaries and communion, and she was taught to read by nuns. ![]() Over the years, people pointed out to Doreen Carvajal, who was raised Catholic, that her last name sounded like a name of conversos, Spanish Jews forced to convert during the Inquisition. ![]()
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