Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index.
Summary
Surveys the life and work of this award-winning Latina author.
Contents
Girl with the bad report cards -- Straddling two countries -- Seven fathers and one strong-willed mother -- Yellow weed among the hothouse flowers -- Back to the barrio -- Borderland blessings, borderland blues -- Ghosts and voices -- Nobody's wife, nobody's mother -- That house in the heart.