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

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.