Status Updates From Mosquito (Bluestreak)

Well, I didn't knowingly harbor an illegal, that's the point. So that's why I decided if the sons-of-bitches were going to bring charges against me for unknowingly harboring an undocumented worker, I'd start knowingly harboring them, or at least using my talents to create free papers for them. That's what you call real art.

These people who think it's not a war, and that America's not a war zone, just don't know who they're dealing with...

This books is a roller coaster of feeling and thought and the fact it refuses a linear structure is what makes it able to bend the way it does. Nadine is so many things. The way ray responds to her is really telling. Also all the allusions to other black (women) writers: Alice Walker, ntozake, Margaret Walker, and Ernest Gaines is fascinating. D’Angelo and lauryn hill shout-out is crazy. Sensuality is ever present.

Holidays and trip hurriedly approaching, this may be my final read of 2023. It’s bricks of text, paragraphs pages long. Cheers, all. My absolute best to you and yours X