Oz Rodriguez talks about how Mariana Enriquez wove Spanish sayings from their mother directly into the book, and how their mother read it and cried. Family names appear in the text, though their father hasn't read it yet.
This book has so many. It's in English but there's a lot of sayings in Spanish that are strictly from my mom. Like it's just verbatim things that she says so like there's a lot of me in this book did your mom read it? She has read it. What did she say? In English there's no Spanish translation. She's very proud and there was a lot of tears and there was a phone call with a lot of crying so it's she's very proud and, and my, my dad hasn't read it yet but my mom did read it and did she recognize the stuff that was about her? Yeah. Yeah 100% yeah that's so sick. Then all the names I had to feel good. Yeah all the names are also family members so like I think she more than anyone really sees sort of the threads that connect and like the names and the things so I, I yeah she was very excited. It.
