LA Unscripted | September 28th, 2023

His parents are from the South So our daughter , she's beautifully uh mixed with both of us . Mija books is a multicultural children's bookstore that aims to highlight diverse Children , diverse stories , Multilingual stories . This has always been something uh I would say we wanted to do in terms of a project that's impactful .

LA Unscripted | September 28th, 2023

So it's a quick snapshot of the diversity present here in our store . My name is Stephanie Moran Reed and welcome to Miha books . So there's actually two pronunciations for our bookstore .

LA Unscripted | September 28th, 2023

This has always been something uh I would say we wanted to do in terms of a project that's impactful . I like this bookstore because it has a lot of different types of books and they're all fun . We opened our store , November 1st of 2021 .

LA Unscripted | September 28th, 2023

I think the further you get away from your country , the more you romanticize it . And so for me being able to grab from this buffet of culture and showcase it to the world has been sort of my life mission . My wife Sandra Cuba , uh Ey winning Sandra Cuba is someone that I've been with since high school .

LA Unscripted | September 28th, 2023

One Spanish speakers will see it as Mija , which is the colloquial word for my daughter in Spanish . It has a much deeper meaning for us because it's actually the first two initials of our daughter's first and middle name , Mia Jamila . So another pronunciation is Mija .