Drown

My 6 highlights

• Pollutants have made Jersey sunsets one of the wonders of the world.

• Mami had been pregnant with my first never-born brother

• Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

• Papi was a voracious reader, couldn’t even go cheating without a paperback in his pocket.

• I wouldn’t have raised my head if God himself had appeared in the sky and pissed down on us.

• I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.