The culture of exile is the culture of loss…

Culebra is an American Virgin island with a fierce sound for a past, a sound that still hollows it out and leaves it damaged…

At a writers’ conference not long ago, I gave a public reading from “Trading Off,” a memoir that for the most part dramatizes a turbulent relationship I’d had with an old high school baseball coach. During the q and a, I was asked the usual questions: “Did it really happen the way you wrote it?”