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"I yelled. But who could hear me? How many people have died this way? (p15)"
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Angie CruzAngie Cruz
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Angie Cruz is an American novelist and associate professor at Columbia University, where she teaches in the MFA Writing Program and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She previously taught in the MFA writing program at the University of Pittsburgh.
"I yelled. But who could hear me? How many people have died this way? (p15)"
"My name is Cara Romero, and I came to this country because my husband wanted to kill me. Dont look so shocked. Youre the one who asked me to say something about myself. (beginning of book)"
"Its always like that: just when I think I dont give a shit about what my family thinks, they find a way to drag me back home. (beginning of book)"
"I do think reading is an intimate conversation we can have with ourselves and each other. Even if we don’t explicitly say the horrors of our lives out loud, the characters in the books can bridge an understanding that we survived something or a knowing of something, between family members and our communities. (2020)"
"I dont want to write the war in my next novel. I want to imagine peace...Maybe its in code-switching that we can invent a language for peace. (in Callaloo Summer 2007)"