Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of a Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. She was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish. Hudes has since found her language, and in this powerful work, “her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories,” said Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton. Hudes is joined by journalist Maria Hinojosa, whose work has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. Image: book cover RESOURCES Explore the work of Quiara Alegría Hudes http://www.quiara.com/mybrokenlanguage Purchase Quiara’s memoir from Porter Square Books https://www.portersquarebooks.com/eve... Maria Hinojosa is the founder of Futuro Media Group https://www.futuromediagroup.org/mari... Check out Latino USA https://www.latinousa.org/ In the Thick podcast https://www.inthethick.org/ Emancipated Stories is a collection of writing and art by those behind bars. http://www.quiara.com/emancipatedstories Explore the work of Melinda Lopez http://www.melindalopez.com/ Huntington Theater https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/