The heart of Portrait of Us Burning is seething tension between a kind of darkness birthed from trauma. This is especially poignant for children of first-generation immigrants. How can we...
At the primas slumber parties, we’d read Tiger Beat magazine and Linda would make up stories that involved meeting our magazine heartthrobs. We listened to 45’s on the record player and imagined being the Latino version of the Jackson 5 or the Osmond Brothers. Nandito and Boyer would plot and