The author uses her mother's death to review her own life and her family's story. Her mother's story is essentially two different lives: one in Puerto Rico and the other in Texas. Luisa Lopez Torregrosa's life is divided into two parts, as well: one is her childhood, her father and Puerto Ric...
It came in gulps, torrents, slashing across the world, drowning it. The sky, a crisscross of flashes, lightning snapping, became a vast black sea, exploding. Palm trees lashed by high winds from the south bowed to the ground, and people caught in a tempest of wind and rain, light and thunder, wer...