newyorker.com
Lowinger, an art conservator in Los Angeles, was born in Havana in the midst of the revolution. Her grandparents, Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, had fled persecution to arrive in Cuba in the nineteen-twenties; after Castro took power, the family fled again, to Miami, losing everything. Her mother had a saying: “Man plans and God laughs.” Lowinger is in the business of repair.
The other day, Lowinger, who is petite and rubia and wears round glasses, was at a warehouse east of downtown L.A.,…
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