“Today i solved a problem my mother knew nothing about,” Estrella said. Her words twisted, each one sounding harder, like a knot tightening. “She still doesn’t. I fixed it, and she had no idea. My mother, all our mothers, they think they’re holding everything up, but we have it too. It’s ours too. So forget what my nother thinks i should or shouldn’t be doing because we’re going and getting some damn cotton candy, okay?”
