White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing by Jennifer De Leon (Author)

Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return―to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way.