Status Updates From Land of the Cranes (Scholas...

Reading this in English and Spanish concurrently. My heart is breaking and the pieces are sharp with anger.

"Our solutions must be steeped in respect for migrants and for their heartbreaking circumstances, and those solutions cannot be achieved by building more walls nor by acting with cruelty." - from the author's "Dear Reader" after the novel

"Pero, what they don't want to admit
is that our people have been here
since before there were borders.
We are indigenous to this land
and they, THEY are the illegal immigrants
who came to this continent without
an invitation and colonized."

Oh my. The tears have begun in earnest.