Summary

Belisa Crepusculario “made her living selling words” (3). She gave herself her name, because her family was “so poor they did not even have names to give their children” (4). Belisa Crepusculario would travel through different environments, stopping in towns and cities to sell her words. She was well-known, so people waited for her arrival, looking to buy stories, news, love letters, insults, etc. For an extra “fifty centavos,” (4), Belisa Crepusculario would give the customer a secret word, which was unique and exclusive to only that customer.

Belisa Crepusculario headed West in her travels, after having buried her four younger siblings due to a drought. hoping to reach the sea. Many others attempted this journey, but they did not survive. This was when Belisa Crepusculario discovered written text, in the form of a newspaper’s sports page. Belisa Crepusculario became worried that written text would...