Mi Casa Uptown
Learning to Love Again

When I first got this book in the mail and flipped through it, I must confess that something about the slightly larger-than-average font led me to drastically underestimate what the book had to offer. While I'm not proud of this assumption, it did make actually reading the book a consistently pleasa......more

A book that is both a memoir of belonging as a Dominican-American and about learning to plant roots for the sake of mission. A pretty easy read overall. I found myself less moved by the sections about planting roots, and more moved by the sections on what it means to be mestizo and live between being......more

Great book about how to love people in our surroundings As is the case with every book, its author will approach a specific topic from their own vantage point and try to persuade the reader to accept their version of life as if it’s the only viewpoint. However, at the same time, the reader can be so......more

Learning to love again. Mi Casa Uptown teaches us how to love our neighbor even when we don't feel like it. Even when it hurts to do so. The world sees no need to be in the lives of their neighbors. Current culture does not put value on this, but Jesus' people should. The idea of investing in a hometo......more

Mi Casa UpTown brought me on a journey through areas I remember passing through on the subway or on the way into “the city” from Brooklyn or Long Island. I heard car horns, the smell of the air, the bounce of a small red ball against the buildings. Mi Casa reminds us that we as followers and believe......more