“Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration” is out June 20 from Penguin Random House.
about Mexican immigrants helped to accelerate a long-simmering and often-contentious debate about who really “belongs” in America.
Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican American translator and immigrant justice activist, has devoted much of her career to trying to ease some of the difficulty that immigrants experience arriving in the US. Her new memoir, , is a testament to just how many different ways there are to leave one’s home behind and attempt to build a new one—often while facing poverty, bigotry, and active repression.recently spoke to Oliva about working on the book while in divinity school, the role she’s played as a translator in helping to acclimatize newcomers to the US, and her own family’s journey toward the life she currently lives.It started coming together as a book probably in 2018.
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