"Such
a window, such an ax, into the hard, human struggles of writers,
sisters and brothers here — resolving, harmonizing and perhaps, simply
just telling their Nepantlas. These lives in-between bridges of culture,
of gender, of memory and presence, invisibility and courage, of raped
bodies on the precipice of healing and wholeness, of speaking versus
silence, of shame in-between wholeness, of big time university life then
riding back to Segundo Barrio DNA. And of mothers drifting and
daughters blazing in the Now. Each page, a revelation. Each story, a
valley of tears and a mountain of triumph. This Nepantla Familia will
tear your heart open. You will finally get to feel like a human being.
You will have humanity in your hands. One of a kind, I thank Troncoso
for this anthology — I bow before these writers of truth and love. A
mega-ground-crackling and life expanding house of diamonds."
—Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the USA, Emeritus
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