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Rigoberto Gonzalez
For nearly five centuries, the rich tapestry of Latino poetry has been woven from a wealth of languages and cultures-a "tremendous continental mixturao," in the words of the poet Tato…
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In the grim reality of Southern California’s grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto Gonzalez’s novel that spans a…
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Standing over two graves, Rigoberto Gonzalez studies the names ‘Ramon’ and ‘Maria’ under the family name ‘Gonzalez.’ ‘She was Maria Carrillo, not Maria Gonzalez’, he thinks. His grandmother is missing…
Short stories that probe the silent suffering of men
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history…
In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto Gonzalez looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for…
In cities and fields, Mexican American men are leading lives of quiet desperation. In this collection of thirteen startling stories, Rigoberto Gonzalez weaves complex portraits of Latinos leading ordinary, practically…
Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California’s Coachella Valley, three generations of Gonzalez men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex…
Bilingual English/Spanish. A tender story about a boy struggling to express his love for his mother and her partner in a nontraditional family.
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Kathleen Alcala
A novel of 1870s Mexico, featuring a mixed-faith family. It is headed by Zacarias Carabajal, a Jewish gold prospector who converts to Catholicism to marry a rich woman, while his…
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Johanny Vazquez Paz
Introducing the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, given by the National Poetry Series, featuring an introduction by Rigoberto Gonz lez, and presented in both Spanish and English.
Este libro trata sobre los aspectos basicos y clinicos de diversas discapacidades de origen neurologico. En terminos generales, la poblacion percibe a la discapacidad como la falta de movimientos y…
