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City Lights Publishers
Octavio Solis
Retablos: Stories From A Life Lived Along The Border
N/A
2018
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Publisher > City Lights Publishers
Author > Octavio Solis
Title > Retablos: Stories From A Life Lived Along The Border
Issue > N/A
Year > 2018
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ISBN > 9780872867888
Pages > 162
Genre > Biography-And-Autobiography Performing-Arts Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2018-10
Release > 2026-09-29
Disks > 01 x 1 MB
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Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News and called one of the Best
Books of the Year by BuzzfeedThe New York Times directs readers to Retablos
if you want to know whats life really like on the Mexican border Solis grew
up just a mile from the Rio Grande in El Paso Texas and he tells stories
about his childhood and coming of age including his parents migration to
the United States from Mexico his first encounter with racism and finding a
Mexican migrant girl hiding in the cotton fieldsConcepcin de Len New York
TimesSeminal moments rites of passage crystalline vignettesa memoir about
growing up brown at the USMexico borderMore praise for Octavio Soliss
RetablosThis is American and Mexican literature a stones throw from the
always hustling El Paso borderGary Soto author of The
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/retablos-stories-from-a-life-lived-along-the-
border-octavio-solis/a10c737d36224677
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