I am in a two-stoplight town in the Alabama hill country, in the heart of the Bible Belt and Crimson Tide football mania, listening to an old-fashioned, heated argument between Cubans like the ones I've heard in Little Havana in Miami, but the moment very quickly loses its sense of strangeness and cultural dissonance. This is what America is like now-- North America, I mean, the United States. The craziness of cubanos and mexicanos and guatemaltecos can find you just about anywhere
Héctor TobarMaybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
Héctor TobarIn books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.
Héctor TobarShe would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that the two languages did not carry equal weight.
Héctor TobarTags: language privilege spanish english
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