Jan 12, 2022
in quarantine? what are you reading?
truth in bushwick. boricua brooklyn. generosity and joy, navigating life when you're poor. #yalit #whenwemakeit
i am midway through “when we make it” by brooklyn born boricua and amazing poet-author ELISABET VELASQUEZ. this book is so truthful that it makes you realize how unseen our lives can be sometimes. it follows two sisters in bushwick in the 1980s-90s (?), growing up, and making things work with their mother, their hopes, their faith (and doubts), their day-to-day, apt-to-apt life seeing as much of…
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