Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 1st ed. Octavo in sepia-brown illus jacket; xii, 132 pages: illustrations, map; 21 cm As new; very fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0826315925

In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood. Mexican American families -- Fiction. Girls -- Fiction. Familias mexicano-americanas -- Texas -- Novela. Familia -- Texas -- Novela. Muchachas -- Texas -- Novela. Girls. Mexican American families. Genre/Form: Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Texas -- Fiction. Texas. Girls; Fiction; Mexican American families; Fiction; Texas; Fiction