During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
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I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.
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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.
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I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
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I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
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