Sam Ortiz’s Reviews > Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons > Status Update

“I used to resent the fact that she didn’t teach me Spanish, that she didn’t maintain our family traditions… Identity is defined as much by what you have as what you’ve lost. Wanting to recover those things was like feeling homesick for a home I never had. That, to me, is Chicano.”