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Author Solis, Octavio, author

Title Retablos : stories from a life lived along the border / Octavio Solis
Published San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
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
Summary "Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "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)
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2023)
Subject Solis, Octavio -- Childhood and youth
Mexican American authors -- Biography
Dramatists, American -- Biography
Authors, American -- Biography
DRAMA -- American.
Childhood and youth of a person
Authors, American
Dramatists, American
Mexican American authors
Social conditions
SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018029844
ISBN 9780872867888
0872867889
Other Titles Stories from a life lived along the border