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(0)Viola Canales
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio in McAllen, Texas, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to boarding school, she longs...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
In her ode to The Umbrella, Viola Canales remembers a family story about her mother, who every Saturday as a child "popped open her prized child's bright umbrella / as did her little sister / and followed their mother's adult one / from their Paloma barrio home / to downtown Main Street McAllen / walking like ducks in a row / street after street," until one Saturday "the littlest one disappeared / inside the wilderness of Woolworth's." Warm-hearted
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Language
Español
Description
El Gusano de Tequila is the Spanish translation of the novel The Tequila Worm, winner of the Pura Belpré and PEN USA Awards. Sofía viene de una familia de cuentistas. Aquí están sus cuentos de cuando crecía en un barrio de McAllen, llenos de la magia de las tradiciones familiares: hacer cascarones de Pascua, celebrar el Día de los Muertos, preparar la quinceañera, disfrutar el nacimiento de Navidad, y curar la nostalgia comiendo el gusano de...
Author
Language
English
Description
Early in Canales' collection, the young narrator gives her beloved grandmother the perfect Christmas present; she gives her the gift of the world. Through her descriptions, we see that world as she sees it, through the eyes of a child that is slowly moving into adolescence. In this twilight world, the author offers a shimmering picture of a family confronted with the issues that divide lives and love.
In this collection of coming of age stories, Canales...