Por:
Javier O. Huerta
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Fecha:
2012
"In this innovative work that uses grocery stores as a guiding motif, he deftly combines English and Spanish to explore his identity as an immigrant, naturalized citizen, son, brother, lover, graduate student. Visits to grocery stores in the U. S. and northern Mexico lead to questions about himself. I often wonder if I would have grown up thin had my Familia stayed and bought groceries in Mexico. The day we crossed the river my seven-year-old body had not an ounce of fat on it, he remembers. But he looks beyond his own personal circumstances as he explores the abundance of experience found in...