"Anyone who has left their
home and tried to find a new one in a strange place — at times welcoming
and at times hostile — they should find themselves in the work of
Mexican American writers exploring nepantla. Anyone who has felt stymied
by ancestors and their demands, yet also emboldened by their sacrifices
and forgotten values — they should find themselves. Anyone who has
forged a self from pieces of many worlds, to fit and not fit in a new
home, who has balanced on many beams to understand different sides —
yes, they should find themselves. Anyone who has loved another from a
different world — they should recognize a version of themselves. And
anyone who has crossed any border to create who they are, rather than to
take who they are for granted, rather than to assume a place belongs to
them — and suffered the consequences for it — they will find their
fellow travelers, their kindred spirits."
