...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)