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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

by John Phillip Santos

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ISBN13: 9780140292022
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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.

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In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people.

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About the Author

John Phillip Santos, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar whose awards include the Academy of American Poets' Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News. Writer and producer of more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of them Emmy nominees, he lives in New York City.

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Table of Contents

Family Trees

Testimonio

1. Tierra de Viejitas

2. Códices de los Abuelos

3. Valle de Silencio

Mexico Viejo

4. Cuento Mestizo

5. The Flowered Path

6. From Huisache to Cedar

Peregrinaje

7. Zona de Niebla

8. Aztec Theater

9. Rain of Stones

Volador

10. Exilio

11. La Ruta

12. Una Canción

Epilogue

Tent of Grief: An Afterword

Acknowledgments

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kmunoz458, August 30, 2006 (view all comments by kmunoz458)
I enjoy reading this book especially because it relates so much with my background. Also it gives a enforcement for what I believe in and what I was thought by my parents to believe in. Culture is use to identify the different types of people that live in one area and share a common background. Also for those readers who are not Mexican American or who are not mestizos can experience what the life of a mestizo is like. I encourage for young teens to read this book because it is also a learning experience.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140292022
Author:
Santos, John Phillip
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Author:
Santos, John Philip
Location:
New York
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Minority Studies - Ethnic American
Subject:
Mexican americans
Subject:
Ethnic Cultures
Subject:
Journalists
Subject:
Texas
Subject:
Family/Interpersonal Memoir
Subject:
Mexican-american authors
Subject:
San Antonio
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Ethnic Cultures - General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
San antonio (tex.)
Subject:
Santos, John Phillip - Childhood and youth
Subject:
Biography-Ethnic Cultures
Subject:
Ethnic Studies-Immigration
Copyright:
2000
Edition Number:
Paperback ed.
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series Volume:
106-536
Publication Date:
20000831
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
7.84x5.06x.60 in. .50 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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