Oscar Hijuelos on Losing and Finding Language

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Oscar Hijuelos is the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature for his book "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love."  His memoir is called "Thoughts Without Cigarettes" and tells the story of how a childhood illness robbed him of his first language - Spanish.  He begins by reading Steve Paulson a passage from his memoir