Sharks in the rivers

The speaker in this collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout 'Sharks in the Rivers', Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it 'keeps opening before us', for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness.