In what ways does Catalina’s narrative follow or conform to the expectations of an immigration story? In what ways does it subvert or mock the genre?

In the novel, Catalina calls Henry Kissinger her “favorite Harvard alum” and often imagines that an army of “little Henry Kissingers” lives in her body and gives her energy (45). What is the significance of Kissinger and Catalina’s fixation on him in the novel?

Ty reveal about Catalina and how she sees the world? Consider this especially in relation to the narrative as a first-person perspective.