A place in El Paso : a Mexican-American childhood / Gloria L�opez-Stafford.

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L�opez-Stafford, Gloria, 1937-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, �1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

058532302X
9780585323022

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Place in El Paso.DDC classification:

976.4/96 B 20

LOC classification:

F394.E4 L67 1996eb

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Contents:

Prologue, 1949 -- The second ward and my parents -- St. Vrain Street -- A motherless child -- The trouble with English -- A September party -- Plata -- Macho -- December 1945 -- Sayings and secrets -- Hijo natural -- Poverty and work -- S�abado de Gloria -- Life with Mari�a -- Adi�os -- Alameda Street -- Pershing Drive -- C�efiro -- El sol -- October -- If -- Christmas 1949.

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Summary: "This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who would beg as commuters passed back and forth to Juarez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets. Lopez-Stafford shows the reader El Paso through the eyes of Yoya - short for Gloria - the high-spirited narrator, who is five years old when the book begins." "Gloria is a survivor. Her young mother has died leaving her in the care of her much older father, who tries to provide for his family by selling used clothing. Her brother Carlos, Padre Luna, and a community of children and women assume responsibility for Gloria, but like the inexplicable loss of her mother, unexpected changes separate her from her beloved barrio neighborhood. The search for su lugar, her place, becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and families."--Jacket.

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"This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who would beg as commuters passed back and forth to Juarez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets. Lopez-Stafford shows the reader El Paso through the eyes of Yoya - short for Gloria - the high-spirited narrator, who is five years old when the book begins." "Gloria is a survivor. Her young mother has died leaving her in the care of her much older father, who tries to provide for his family by selling used clothing. Her brother Carlos, Padre Luna, and a community of children and women assume responsibility for Gloria, but like the inexplicable loss of her mother, unexpected changes separate her from her beloved barrio neighborhood. The search for su lugar, her place, becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and families."--Jacket.

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