If you look at the lives of most great artists, you'll see they all have some crazy in them. I'm not saying I'm a great artist, but Cervantes was, and if my logic follows, we would have the crazy part in common. And like a crazy person would, I look at his life and see amazing parallels with mine.
First of all, Cervantes was also born into a family experiencing rapid economic decline. Coincidentally Cervantes' father was deaf, and my father is deaf. And then there's the moving, the Cervantes family moved from Cordova in the south of Spain up into the Andalucian region in the North; just like how my dad and I have moved from Mexico City to Salt Lake City up north. The Cervantes family had to adapt to the Basque culture; where people had different customs and even spoke a different language, Euskara, and learning another language is really hard. For me, learning English up here has been the hardest part of living in El Norte.
But I shouldn't complain about learning English, Euskara would probably be a lot harder since it apparently has no connection to any other spoken language. I wonder what the food is like in the north of Spain? I really miss the fresh flavors of Mexico. This seems like "the land of the bland". What I'd do to have a Mexican torta; no sandwich in U.S. measures up to a torta. I mean, I had this sandwich the other day - white bread, mayonnaise, American cheese, processed turkey round, a limp piece of iceberg lettuce, and a pickle? Served at a refrigerated temperature; all I can say is that's a cold, lonely entrée.
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MC Quixote
General FictionThis story is about a fifteen year old moving from Mexico to the United States with her deaf father. She experiences many challenges and turns to writing songs and creating music to overcome the difficulties of moving to a new culture while growing...
