4 Quotes by Reyna Grande

Just because they aren’t with us doesn’t mean we don’t have parents anymore.

But then Mago touched my belly button and added something to the story my mother had never told me. She said that my umbilical cord was like a ribbon that connected me to Mami. She said, “It doesn’t matter that there’s a distance between us now. That cord is there forever.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

Juana ran her hand over her mother’s face. “One day.