false 216987 0 0 380927 0826315925 9780826315922 4 <![CDATA[Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242959754m/380927.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242959754s/380927.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380927.Canicula_Snapshots_of_a_Girlhood_En_La_Frontera 3.33 15 "A personalized ethnography that feels as familiar as my own family album, and as touching."—Ana Castillo

"Intimate as a poem, and as large as the Texas sky, these stories are at once diminutive and grand."—Sandra Cisneros

Chronicles the coming of age of a Chicana in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the fifties and sixties.

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