Pen America Litcrawl Brooklyn

Imagine yourself living in poverty, working odd jobs to make some money and then having to choose, will your children eat today, will you have enough money for clothing and school supplies? Or perhaps imagine yourself persecuted by a government that is oppressing its nation, rationing out food, cutting jobs, forcing you to cross borders by land or foot because it’s the only way to reach a place where you will have the chance of surviving. But survival does not come easy, nor is raising a family and navigating a system where its very own government has a certain disdain towards immigrants like you. But this government doesn’t have the slightest idea of who you are, where you came from, or what you faced back home. They have no idea what we sacrifice, what our parents have sacrificed. Join Dominican writers as they share what we as immigrants sacrifice in…