Cuando estoy solo: Mark Oshiro’s Each of Us a Desert, Community, and Self-Preservation At the top of the cover is Mark Oshiro in yellow text, with white lettering of Author of Anger is a Gift. Below it is white text of the book’s title [Each of Us a Desert] is centered in an orange round sun. Below is an orange mountain with the silhouette of a face inside it. The background is blue.“Each of us a desert, alone and vast,” 16-year-old protagonist Xochitl says. “We were alone together, at least.”Tags: literaturefiction Read more about Cuando estoy solo: Mark Oshiro’s Each of Us a Desert, Community, and Self-PreservationLog in to post comments