Lynda Lopez

Let me start by saying, I flat-out loved this book. The idea behind it is brilliant: bring together a community of exceptional Latinx writer and thinkers and let each of them address the significance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her election in their own way. There's an open letter, a discussion of different types of Spanish-language fluency, some Puerto Rican and Newyorican history. I loved this book. Every piece in it shone in its own way—and they all head me thinking in rich, creative—and hopeful—ways about our current world and its possibilities. I've already decided that I'm using this book as the main text in one of my writing courses next year. These writers speak truths I don't even have the language for, and that I still know will speak to my students in ways that will give them their own reasons to write.… (meer)