She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.

“I’ll give you what I’ve managed to unearth and the rest will have to wait for t…”

“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he…”

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, fr…”

“And the roaches. The roaches were so bold in his flat that turning on the light…”