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Desperate to escape the pain of her past, a pregnant Dee Paxton leaves her affluent neighborhood for a job at Frontera Street Fabrics, a small shop in the barrio, where she finds a friend in Alma Cruz, a single mother who has her own secrets. A first novel. Original.
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Tanya Maria Barrientos, a journalist for more than 20 years, is a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her fiction was awarded a 2001 fellowship by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, and the 2001 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Born in Guatemala, she grew up in a Texas border town like the characters in her book. She is currently working on her next novel.
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Dee Paxton is 28, recently widowed and pregnant when she applies for a job at a fabric shop in the Mexican neighborhood of her West Texas town at the opening of Frontera Street by Tanya Maria Barrientos. Dee's Mexican-American co-worker, Alma, pegs Dee as a stuck-up white woman, but when Dee collapses at the store, Alma finds herself obliged to care for her for a few days. Single-mother Alma gradually warms to Dee, as Dee comes to appreciate and love the Mexican-American culture of their border town. The plot is contrived and the story slow moving, but Barrientos's genuine affection for her characters and West Texas border life shines through.
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- PublisherNAL Trade
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0451206355
- ISBN 13 9780451206350
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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