“I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things.” PeopleHappensDarkEverydayThings HappenMexicoBrutalConquestSpainDark ThingsEyewitnesses Author:Laila Lalami
“When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksChildrenBookDifferentEyeReadingForceImaginationCommonFilledReading BooksForeigners Author:Laila Lalami
