Michelle Cacho-Negrete – Big City Lit

How We Became New York

Michelle Cacho-NegreteSummer 2023, Summer 2023 Nonfiction

by Michelle Cacho-Negrete We were Poland. We were Romania. We were Ukraine We were Hungary. We were Russia. We arrived in New York with ragged clothes, a swirl of languages, and our babushkas and yarmulkas and kasha and borsch and pierogi and cozonac and palinka and our dreams and nightmares, and later, tattoos on our

Brooklyn Charlotte Russe

Michelle Cacho-NegreteWinter 2022, Winter 2022 Nonfiction

by Michelle Cacho-Negrete Lately I spend time thinking about things that have vanished and I’m slipping into the past after visiting New York, still home despite my forty years in Maine. The little Manhattan piano bar up two flight of stairs whose cool jazz thrilled us. The White Castle in Queens, when we still ate