How we cite our quotes: (Act.Chapter.Section.Paragraph), (Act.Special Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Behold the girl: the beautiful muchachita [girl]: Lola's daughter. Dark and blindingly fast: in her great-grandmother La Inca's words: una jurona [savage animal]. Could have been my daughter if I'd been smart, if I'd been ––––––––. Makes her no less precious. She climbs trees, she rubs her butt against doorjambs, she practices malapalabras [bad words] when she thinks nobody is listening. Speaks Spanish and English. (afterword.2)
For all our fancy talk about the race, gender, and national identities, there's also a simpler identity that characters struggle with in this book: being part of a family. Of course, the novel is more complicated and farther reaching than the de León family, but they still serve as the focus of Wao. Here, the narrator lovingly describes the next generation of de Leóns.