Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares [in Booklist]
26 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost
With Spanish names, phrases, and whole sentences appearing every few pages, bilingual narrator Yaeli Arizmendi (the voice of Laura Esquivel’s Spanish editions) instinctively settles into Oscar Cásares’s (Amigoland) latest, in which he returns to his Tex-Mex border hometown of Brownsville. Almost-septuagenarian Nina’s life is not her...