On Belonging to Two Places: A Guest Post from Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish Author Pablo Cartaya
It’s my hope that young readers ponder their own identities after they see how Marcus learns to explore his own. I hope they can discover a part of their own identities that they never knew, to bridge a gap, or to fill a void that only family and culture can fill. I also wrote Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish to honor the people of Puerto Rico. After the hurricanes devastated the island in September 2017, I felt a […]