The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Motel Ecstasy
Alia Volz's artist, expat mom needed to leave Mexico and go back to the United States for a heavy-duty chemo treatment, which meant it was time for a mother-daugther road trip.
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Alia Volz is an essayist, novelist and Spanish interpreter. Her writings appear in Tin House, The New York Times, Threepenny Review, New England Review, Utne Reader, Huizache and elsewhere. She recently completed her first novel. Follow her at www.aliavolz.com or on Twitter at @aliavolz.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Processing Children
The courtroom smells of talcum powder. On this afternoon's docket, we have thirty-four children. Thirty-four out of 35,000 or 57,000 or 90,000 kids who have crossed our borders without permission since last October, depending on which source you trust to make sense of what doesn't.