"These may be your children, but they are not your family.
They no longer were yours the day you sent the U-Haul to Beckley. You shipped me contained everything we had built, bought and created, leaving only one furnished room left in Miami. Did you think we could start over in that container? Live within that small space, surrounded by the darkness of your absence - and our confusion?
It is said that ghosts walk through walls because their environments have been changed since their departure. You are our ghost. You say the same things to your children who are different every time you see them. You cannot see the walls, the walls we built so your floods wouldn't drown the tiny, new civilization we were making. It was no Eden, more of infant Pompeii."
Favorite Family Story is an retelling of different stories from the different voices of the sometimes tumultuous Perez family.
This project is ongoing.