Other cases…were inspired by conversations I had with immigrants in Philadelphia and from my own experience growing up in Guatemala during the civil war. All of these instances in our past have informed the narrative. Much like the ‘inkatoriums’ in the book, we have a shameful history of internment centers.
In the ’30s, there was a mass repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. But we can’t get past the fact that some of the things that I describe in my book as part of the fictional dystopia are rooted in our genuine past.
I selected the genre because of the flexibility it gave me to push things further than I truthfully imagined they would be. Why do you continue labeling the novel a work of ‘science fiction’?
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