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Retablos : stories from a life lived along the border / Octavio Solis.

Solis, Octavio,(author.).

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Edneyville Branch SOLIS (Text) 33258008541489 Adult Biography Available -
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  • ISBN: 9780872867864
  • ISBN: 0872867862
  • Physical Description: 168 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2018]

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Formatted Contents Note:
On My "Retablos" -- Retablos -- The Way Over -- In the Shimmer -- Red -- Blood and Coke -- Consuelo -- Keening -- My Friend Memín -- El Judío -- El Mar -- Thieves Like Us -- My Monsters -- Ben -- Our ... Read More
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"Solis's memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border. As he examines seminal moments and rites of passage, Solis looks at them as a series of paintings, capturing events survived thanks to ... Read More

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Subject: Solis, Octavio > Childhood and youth.
Mexican American authors > Biography.
Dramatists, American > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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