Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez

Author:Ernesto Quiñonez [Quiñonez, Ernesto]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

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YOU KNOW WHO loves you by the gifts they bring you. The gifts don’t have to cost a lot, they just need to reflect a part of you and of the other person. There is this colorful bookstore on 103rd between Park and Lexington called La Casa Azul. It has a blue canopy and a sidewall mural featuring both Mexican icons such as Frida Kahlo and Nuyorican poets such as Pedro Pietri, along with a lot of skeletons. I asked the great-looking Chicana lady, Aurora Anaya, who owned the place, if she could suggest books that a girl of fifteen would like. She gave me some titles. I bought them along with a book on the origin of the universe. I then took the 6 downtown. I bought an iPod and magazines for Taína, an alligator shirt for BD, a camera for Sal, linen sheets for Doña Flores’s new bed, and cooking utensils for my father. For my mother, flowers, earrings, and a José Luis Perales Exitos CD. I was happy with all my purchases because I felt in my gifts they’d see what I saw in them. And in my gifts they could read how much they cared for me.

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