What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. Auteur: Esmeralda Santiago Copy Quote More from Esmeralda Santiago “It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.” “In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.” “We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on sti…” “For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was …”