I start cleaning a waterpark, which is Wings and Waves in McMinnville, where I was hired as custodial. And I didn't know I was hired as a custodial because I didn't speak English...
"This whole thing is an immigrant dream, an immigrant story" Delgado said. "I migrated here in 2001 or 2002, and this is a dream of mine since I was a little kid."
"There's no being free on the outside without being free on the inside," proclaims the Mighty Matthias in Venessa Vida Kelley's lush and luminous debut novel, "When the Tides Held the Moon." The themes of freedom, agency, self-empowerment, community and resilience play out in a nostalgia-tinged kaleidoscope in this historic romantasy set in 1911 Coney Island.