1) How does Patricia’s Engel’s essay, “On naming ourselves, or: When I was a spic” inform your view of her approach as a writer? Pick a quote to highlight your point. 2) Given the current climate of the United States around immigration and immigration reform, how do you envision the future of the family? Does Engel give you any indication in the text of what’s left to be written in the “book of our lives”?
