false 380927 1 Canícula&#151;the dog days&#151;a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cantú's fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, it also represents a time between childhood and an as yet unknown adulthood. Actual snapshots and the author's re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this world&#151;births, deaths, injuries, fiestas, rites of passage. This popular book won the 1995 Premio Aztlán. <p>"A personalized ethnography that feels as familiar as my own family album, and as touching."&#151;Ana Castillo<p>"Intimate as a poem, and as large as the Texas sky, these stories are at once diminutive and grand."&#151;Sandra Cisneros<br/><br/>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. 370718 1995 Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera total:16|5:2|4:3|3:9|2:2| 16 53 21 4 2 0 false false Mon Oct 20 22:04:37 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 22:12:30 -0700 2008 The concept of writing from a springboard of photographs is interesting but doesn't quite work. Cantu too often tells about the images rather than shows the sensory value of the moment from which the image was borrowed.
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