"Zap stands in the doorway of classroom 201 and the painted wooden beams frame his body like they were built that way, like he commanded the door to assemble around him and it listened." Fiction.
"The Special Period, from 1991-1998, resulted in drastic changes in every aspect of life in Cuba. It was an era of crisis, contradictions, and confusion, but it also marked the birth of hip-hop in Cuba."