Al cambio de voz de mamá sé exactamente cuándo dar vuelta a la página.ĭormida. Me indica hacia dónde ir en aquello que mamá llama cerebro. Escucho la voz de mamá pronunciando algunas palabras. Saltamos a la cama y nos metemos entre las cobijas. Terminé, tomo mi libro de cuentos favorito/: Rapunzel. Me cepilla, me cepilla, me está cepillando para que él pueda irse pegando gritos a otro lugar. Con la cabeza arriba y la boca abierta, juega al Señor Azúcar conmigo. Mamá se dobla, casi a cuatro patas y con la espalda en arco. The change in Mama’s voice, and I know exactly when to turn the page. They tell me where to go in that thing Mama calls my brain. Brush, brush, brushing to send him screaming to another land.įinished, I grab my favorite storybook/: Rapunzel. Head up and mouth open, she plays Señor Azucar with me. Mama bends down, nearly on all fours, making an arched shape with her back. I hear Mama’sIn Your Dreams Mama’s already in her pajamas. Finished, I grab my favorite storybook/: Rapunzel. Brush, brush, brushing to send him screaming to another land.
These unflinching and often brutal fictions crisscross spiritual, emotional, and physical borders as they give voice to all those whom society chooses not to see. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today. In a world filled with racism, police brutality, poverty, and tensions between haves and have-nots, these flashes of fictional insight bring gleaming clarity to life lived where all sorts of borders meet and shift.įrederick Luis Aldama and graphic artists from Mapache Studios give shape to ugly truths in the most honest way, creating new perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about life in the borderlands of the Américas. Each glimpse into lives at every stage-from newborns and children to teens, young adults, and the elderly-further submerges readers in psychological ups and downs.
The stories in this dynamic bilingual prose-art collection touch on the universals of romance, family, migration and expulsion, and everyday life in all its zany configurations. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, border crossers and border smugglers, drug kingpins, Latina motorbike riders, philosophically musing tweens, and so much more.
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