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Chronicles the coming of age of a Chicana in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the fifties and sixties.
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Norma Elia Cantu is professor of English at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas.
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- PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
- Publication date1997
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