"My family has been forced to live like an Island with no political party, president, or official language.
Actua.
She is amazing in 3D.
I\'ve had the pleasure of seeing her perform in person.
Her potent voice conjures images of the Dominican Republican, Texas, Houston, the world.
Sarah Cortez, author, "Walking Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston." Jasminne builds bridges between many worlds.
Join memoir-writer Jasminne Mendez in this luscious recalling of her family\'s multi-faceted sojourn of family ties and their meaning, glorious cooking and eating, belonging and not belonging, and so many other complicated forays into the storied past.
They are about a young girl who respects the richness and abundance of her cultural history, but who struggles to form her own identity because her Dominican values conflict with her American self and all she wants to do is find a place to call home.
These captivating stories and poems are about family, food, love, culture, self-discovery, assimilation, and the American dream.
Her work explores everything from the love/hate relationship she had with her hair and her mother, to the many memorable but sometimes unpleasant family vacations and holidays she shared with her parents, siblings, primos, t os, y t as.
Always feeling like a foreigner in both lands because people want to know "where you from," and "how do you know Spanish?" In "Island of Dreams," author Jasminne Mendez, addresses these questions and their complicated answers in a multi-genre memoir that effortlessly blends poems and short stories to offer a glimpse into the challenges, joys, hopes, fears and disappointments she and her family faced being Dominican in America.
We live and love with one foot on the ground and one foot in the sea." This is how Jasminne Mendez describes what it was like for her to grow up a Dominican American military brat.
We are not Dominican enough or American enough to call either place home.
We are not of any "new world" Columbus discovered. "My family has been forced to live like an Island with no political party, president, or official language
