Friday, July 27, 2007

Mother Tongue

So very, very good, so good that I don't even think I have the right to talk about how fucking good it is. I kept wondering while I read why I hadn't heard of her before. The copy I checked out from the library is signed by the author. I want to steal it.

Best quote...

“When I came up from Mexico I gathered words like dung to fertilize life in this alien land. And over time I fell in love with English. Men? They came and went. But the language is mine forever and ever.” (pg. 25)

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