White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing

Alternately Honest, Funny, and Visceral, this powerful collection follows Jennifer De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she returns to Guatemala again and again, meets ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, gets married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigu...