Happiness, when it comes, is stronger than all the jerk girls in Santo Domingo combined.

“Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old…”

“She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabin…”

“I never see the sick;” Yasmin says. “They visit me through the stains and marks…”

“I would have waited until we got back to the States, waited like paja de arroz,…”