I think this is because I wrote this book for my family. For every time one of us has been asked variations of the question when did your family come to this country? As a young person, I struggled to answer. My grandfather came to Texas in the 1940s, and my grandmother’s mother during the Mexican Revolution, but the rest of my grandmother’s family? The Rio Grande Valley is a pocket of the world where the border has moved more often than the people living there. I have realized that the answer is, in fact, a question itself. A question that became the heart of this book. When did this country
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