Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

Hardcover octavo first edition of turquoise cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. The book is in fine condition in a equally fine dust jacket. Autobiographical memories of growing up in New mexico, between the small mountain town of Mora and Corrales. The title comes from one of her first memories, of sitting at her Grandmother's table in Mora, in a well used high chair, and eating warm oatmeal with sweet cream. Engaging and accurate accounts of New Mexico in the 50's and 60's, when many rural families still heated and cooked with wood, on old iron cook stoves which were some of the best stoves gor cooking. I can vouch for this, and still miss my wood cookstove to this day. The author has published many stories about New Mexican Chicano culture, history, family and heritage in "La Herencia Magazine". x and 230 pp. Southwest, New Mexico, Memoir, Autobiographical sketches, Rural New Mexican History, Mid Century, Family, Culture, Customs, Childhood, Mid 20th Century.