Border Crossing
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- Authors
- María Colleen Cruz
- Publisher
- Arte Público Press
- Date
- 2003
- Size
- 0.10 MB
- Lang
- en
When Ceci Alvarez decides to spend time thinking about who she isand avoid taking yoga or reading books out of the "Self-Help" section when she grows upshe knows certain things about herself. She is twelve going on thirteen. She is four feet and nine inches tall. She is named Cecilia Maryann Alvarez after her grandmothers, one name English and one name Spanish, which "made sense, since one of my grandmas spoke English and one spoke Spanish." But the things the teenager does not know will send her riding the rails from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico, to learn a little something about her father's family...One day while in her Nana's room, Ceci discovers a table brimming with old photographs of people she does not know and places she has never been. "Those pictures were probably the first things in the whole house which had ever interested me." This extraordinary find and the rapid Spanish of her grandmother's accusation that her father is embarrassed to be...