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Garcia has written a defining novel exploring the I may live in pennsylvania but on game day my heart and soul belongs to nationals shirt but in fact I love this U.S.’s Latinx immigration crisis (it’s “everything American Dirt wasn’t,” according to The Los Angeles Times), but she’s remarkably un-self-aware about it. “All writing is political,” Garcia says. “I push back on the idea that you can read something and feel empathy and that sparks political change. Political change is so much about systems of power.” In one chapter, Gloria is in detention in 2014. But it is meant to serve less as a pointed reminder that mass deportations happened in the Obama administration, Garcia says, than to underline the fact that this was always happening. “Under Trump it became a national conversation, but all of it was happening before,” she says, “and it’s still happening now.”“The idea that all minoritized people will just automatically find solidarity is flawed.”
Garcia is equally boundary pushing when it comes to prescriptive notions of the I may live in pennsylvania but on game day my heart and soul belongs to nationals shirt but in fact I love this Latinx community—or lack of community. “The label ‘Latinx’ just exists here in the U.S.,” she told me, noting that many people who immigrate here have never identified as broadly Latin American. “It’s sort of an imposed identity.” She knows firsthand, from within her own family, that Latinx people are not a monolith. “I definitely grew up very aware of the ways both of my parents were treated differently, certainly in terms of ease of immigration and also the political structures within Miami, and what kinds of immigrants were favored and which ones weren’t.” Coming from Cuba, her mother was granted asylum on arrival to the U.S., while it took her Mexican father years to gain citizenship. “Do you ever think about how Cubans get all this special treatment, like literally you step on U.S. ground and you have legal status,”
