“It is an American story. And it’s a Mexican story. I’m the child of immigrants. Being the child of immigrants is always this liminal space of, where do I fit in? It is complex. And the older I get, the more complex it becomes. I was born here. What I celebrate is the America that I grew up in—it’s very brown, it’s very Mexican…”

—  Isabel Quintero

On her book My Papi Has a Motorcycle in “Q & A with Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña” https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/80000-q-a-with-isabel-quintero-and-zeke-pe-a.html in Publishers Weekly (2019 May 9)

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