The Feminist Press at CUNY This debut is so much more than an immigrant’s story. It is an ode to the resilience of the human spirit. A hymn to the power of poems and stories as agents of personal liberation and social change. In any language. Any culture. Anywhere in the world. ¡Brava, Claudia! ¡Otra, otra! Encore! —Lucha Corpi Breathtaking. Honest. Bilingual. Bicultural. A journey across numerous borders in search of the Promise Land. Claudia uses all types of forms of writing to tell her story—poetry, prose, English, Spanish. This is her life, her memories. Some good, a lot bad. She doesn’t fit in the new land, and after a few years, she doesn’t fit back home in Guatemala either. She is of both lands, but none. Does that make her more... or less? Unfortunately , that is the eternal struggle of bicultural children. SUMMARY: A young Guatemalan immigrant’s adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US as she ...