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    <body><![CDATA[This is a non-fiction book of many layers.  It's about greed, prejudice, hate and anger, poverty and death.  It's also about family, love, relationships, and dreams.  Parallel stories are told of two children, both babies of their families, who grow up during the Mexican revolution.  Children of war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36273285">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     This book is quite wonderful. Although listed as a non-fiction book, it reads like a novel.  It has feelings.  The reader can not read it without becoming attached to the people and events of the story.<br/>     Victor Villasenor has traced three generations of his Latino family's history in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15256596">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was exceptional.  The family research the author conducted to put this family story together is amazing.  Reading this book gave me a whole new outlook into immigration and Mexican history.  The war and revolution that occured in Mexico was so bad that families had to flee in order to save...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23095024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful story, made that much more impressive simply by the fact that it is the true story of the author's family. It is impossible to not feel what the characters are feeling and, as a reader, you become emotionally invested in the story very quickly. I found myself crying when the char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1231993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  Victor Villasenor tells the story of his parents immigrating from Mexico, finding each other in the US and getting married.  His parents were small children during the Mexican revolution, lived in poverty and their stories of immigrating are amazing.  He interviewed his relatives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48343286">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was a high school senior my English teacher handed out this book.  I was so annoyed!  This was a big book, at least in high school senior land.  I couldn't believe this was our next unit.  I started reading it and then I couldn't put it down.  I was sneaking it out to read in any class I coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45571435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was entertaining, but the writing was poor. Specifically, the author used way too much foreshadowing. It was annoying. And the characters were pretty evil, especially the two Mexican mothers, who bugged me to no end.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was passed to me by Karli...a long time ago i was a little hesitant thinking that it really wouldn't be my thing.  However, with our move to Mexico this fall i really thought it would be a good read and purchased it the day before leaving to drive from S.F. to Vallarta.  <br/><br/>I don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71483847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a nice long book, but well worth the read! Easily broken up to read in short bursts, it was a great book for reading on the bus, but it was also great to read in longer stretches.<br/><br/>It's a nonfiction, but the way the author chose to write it makes it a great story, or rather, two gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46816919">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so love this book! You all know I’m a slow reader so when I got it for my Birthday and saw this huge book in my hands the 1st thing that came in to my mind was……”I’m never going to finish this one!”  But that’s not the case. I love it so much. I started it two weeks ago and I’m lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11653771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the best book everr!  It is the true story of the author's parents and how they came to the United States, meet one another, and fell in love.  The greatest immigrant story I have ever read.  It is so filled with unbelievable miracles, it is truly inspriring.  You really feel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64971590">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book and would definitely recommend it.  Other than being a little slow and too long in places, it was extremely enjoyable.  It took me a little while to get into it because the tone and themes of the book are so different than what I'm used to reading -- almost mythical/legendar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21936385">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Family Memoir)—When I picked this book up, I knew next to nothing about Mexican history or culture.  This book turned out to be a wonderful introduction to both subjects through a very personal saga of the forces that brought Villasenor's father and mother's families out of Mexico and into the Un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38489680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book.  I took my time to read it, because it was so close to some of my own family stories that it made me really feel at home.  Living in the Eastern part of the country, I really feel the absence of the culture.  I savor the story of Mexican Americans in the South West and our his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81863017">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Villaseñor tells the story of his family's journey to the United States.  It starts out in war torn Mexico and works its way North.  Teaching at a school where we are 25% latino (mostly Mexican), this gave me more insight into the lives of some of my students.<br/><br/>The author did a great job of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50121743">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found it interesting...sad.  A tragic repetition of the problems Mexico has experienced over the centuries: an inability to stand together for the good of all.  It seems that only when there is absolute certainty that there will be no retribution are the Hispanic people able to stand up for themse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71104233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Victor Villasenor's Work really shows in this book. This book is truely a work of art. I skimmed through the pages as fast as anyone could think. I aint gonna lie the book is a little bit intimidating because it has so many pages and the font is really small. But dont worry you'll love it even more....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59394258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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