Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Tony Award-winning musical "In The Heights." Hudes has also written a deeply personal memoir -- "My Broken Language" -- on navigating life as the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Jewish father in West Philadelphia. She gives us her Brief But Spectacular take on unearthing family stories.

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