I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. Its what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early 70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.
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