the ramblings of a twenty-something who's just trying to do the best she can
Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a story we've heard before: an enslaved person runs away from a lifetime of forced servitude in pursuit of freedom. However, in Whitehead's adaptation, the means of escape in this novel is anything but metaphorical; the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad underneath southern soil with conductors and passage… Continue reading To Freedom
Tradition, jealousy, lust, and dinner recipes, come together as ingredients to a delicious twelve-chapter story of love and ultimately (in my opinion) tragedy in Laura Esquivel's debut novel Like Water for Chocolate, or Como Agua Para Chocolate when published originally in Spanish. As the youngest daughter in the de la Garza family, tradition dictates that… Continue reading How Forbidden Love Taught Me to Cook Mexican Food
Literally Just Thriving 