In Tus pequeñas huellas we find the story of Marena and Andrés, two Peruvian immigrants who live in New York. She is a journalist, and he works as an editor for the publishing industry. Like many of the characters that Estrada has created in previous works, both face the challenge of telling what it means to be an immigrant and live in a constant negotiation of one’s own identity. As foreigners, Marena and Andrés share the difficulty of finding their way in American society, so full of internal contradictions and historical legacies, such as racism and classism. In this complex context, the couple builds their life and their identity in constant movement, facing, like Andrés, the most difficult challenge about this condition: the awareness that you never belong, “even after spending your entire life in this country, speaking their language, eating their food. He will always be a stranger” (145).
In Tus pequeñas huellas we find the story of Marena and Andrés, two Peruvian immigrants who live in New York. She is a journalist, and he works as an editor for the publishing industry. Like many of the characters that Estrada has created in previous works, both face the challenge of telling what it means to be an immigrant and live in a constant negotiation of one’s own identity. As foreigners, Marena and Andrés share the difficulty of finding their way in American society, so full of internal contradictions and historical legacies, such as racism and classism. In this complex context, the couple builds their life and their identity in constant movement, facing, like Andrés, the most difficult challenge about this condition: the awareness that you never belong, “even after spending your entire life in this country, speaking their language, eating their food. He will always be a stranger” (145).
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