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9780140292022

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

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    9780140292022

  • ISBN10:

    0140292020

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Finalist for the National Book Award! In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina--touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body--to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos' search for the meaning of his grandfather's suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.

Table of Contents

Family Trees ix
Testimonio
Tierra de Viejitas
3(24)
Codices de los Abuelos
27(19)
Valle de Silencio
46(19)
Mexico Viejo
Cuento Mestizo
65(21)
The Flowered Path
86(18)
From Huisache to Cedar
104(17)
Peregrinaje
Zona de Niebla
121(18)
Aztec Theater
139(23)
Rain of Stones
162(31)
Volador
Exilio
193(25)
La Ruta
218(39)
Una Cancion
257(18)
Epilogue 275(5)
Tent of Grief: An Afterword 280(3)
Acknowledgments 283

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