Dulce’s Reviews > Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American > Status Update

"But English, to me, felt so much easier. I spoke English at school and with my siblings. I liked English, it was on TV, it was spoken out in the world, and it was in the books I read and loved. I thought in English, I dreamt in English and I sang in English." "I did not know the Spanish words for ostracized, bullied and melancholic." Feeling so seen and freaked out by how accurate and true this is to my childhood.