The Other Side by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Author:Juan Pablo Villalobos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

HE AND I GOT ALONG REALLY WELL

MIGUEL ÁNGEL

– Did you see how they’re looking at us?

– They must suspect something.

Back on my island, all I did was go from school to home and from home back to school again, and then I made a decision: that when I finished ninth grade I’d immigrate to the United States. I lived with my grandmother, an uncle (my father’s brother), and my big sister.

My mom is from Honduras and my dad is from El Salvador, but, when I was fourteen, my mom left us and decided to make her life with someone else. She went back to her country and left us on our own, and then my grandmother died, and we were even more alone.

My dad went to the U.S. in 2007, because of the situation with work, so he could provide for us—he had to go to give us a better life. He always looked out for me and my sister. And my mom, too, until she decided to go and live with someone else.

– What’s your name?

– César. What’s yours?

– Miguel Ángel.

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