When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what…”

“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travel…”

“We were on our way to the colmado for an errand.”

“Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do th…”