Sneak Peek:  Revisiting Novelist Marisel Vera

Marisel Vera: I have always been a storyteller because my mother was a storyteller.  My mother was always telling me stories about growing up on a mountain in Puerto Rico.  She would talk about the spirits that roamed in the mountains and how she didn't believe in them because the church said not to, but yet she would tell these stories, and other people would tell these stories, and I was always a child that listened to stories. So I think that just from the very beginning my life has been shaped by stories and storytellers.