It’s a beautifully written and powerful story of a woman reclaiming her whole heart. Ortiz wrote an essay accusing Russell of borrowing from the real-life experiences of a Latina authorin this case, those in Ortiz’s memoir Excavationfor her own work of fiction. Ortiz, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers. Click to read Mommy's El Camino, by Wendy C. Its a beautifully written and powerful story of a woman reclaiming her whole heart.
The present-day narrator reflects on the girl she once was, as well as the teacher and parent she has become. A love letter to other writers in the form of essays about the writing life and regular life, shiny fragments, wild ephemera, and more. In Excavation: A Memoir, the black and white of the standard victim/perpetrator stereotype gives way to unsettling grays. This conflicted relationship with her teacher may have been just five years long, but would imprint itself on her and her later relationships, queer and straight, for the rest of her life. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015) and the forthcoming Bruja. Her teacher-now a registered sex offender-continually encouraged her passion for writing while making her promise she was not leaving any written record about their dangerous sexual relationship.
Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power teenagers wish for, regardless of consequences. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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