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Retablos : stories from a life lived along the border / Octavio Solis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780872867888
Other title:
  • Stories from a life lived along the border
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3569 .R483 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
On my "Retablos" -- Retablos -- The way over -- In the shimmer -- Red -- Blood and Coke -- Consuelo -- Keening -- My friend Memín -- El Judío -- El Mar -- Thieves like us -- My monsters -- Ben -- Our other house -- Saturday -- The Mexican I needed -- La Migra -- The little woods -- The cotton -- La Llorona -- Wild kingdom -- Our Blackie -- El Mero Mero -- Nothing happens -- El Kitty -- Locura -- Jeep in the water -- Skinny brown kid doesn't know shit -- Siren songs -- First day -- World goes away -- Bad blood -- Penitente -- The Quince -- The sister -- Fred's herb -- Jesus in our mouths -- Cisco -- Demon -- Mexican apology -- The runner -- La Mariscal -- Tumble-down -- A wall between -- El Segundo -- The want -- The runner II -- Neto -- My right foot -- The runner III.
Subject: "Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PS3569.5572 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1042081419

"These retablos are true stories, but they're filled with lies. The core events are real, they happened, but the images on the peripheries which were faint to my view have been elaborated on ..."--Page)

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border"--

On my "Retablos" -- Retablos -- The way over -- In the shimmer -- Red -- Blood and Coke -- Consuelo -- Keening -- My friend Memín -- El Judío -- El Mar -- Thieves like us -- My monsters -- Ben -- Our other house -- Saturday -- The Mexican I needed -- La Migra -- The little woods -- The cotton -- La Llorona -- Wild kingdom -- Our Blackie -- El Mero Mero -- Nothing happens -- El Kitty -- Locura -- Jeep in the water -- Skinny brown kid doesn't know shit -- Siren songs -- First day -- World goes away -- Bad blood -- Penitente -- The Quince -- The sister -- Fred's herb -- Jesus in our mouths -- Cisco -- Demon -- Mexican apology -- The runner -- La Mariscal -- Tumble-down -- A wall between -- El Segundo -- The want -- The runner II -- Neto -- My right foot -- The runner III.

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