I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.
I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.
The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
