Las Avenidas. Life In La Sonorita And Other Phoenix Barrios

JOE ABRIL

Publication: Hispanic Institute of Social Issues, 2015, Mesa

First edition. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 164 pp. Contents. Illustrations. "Author Joe Abril takes the reader for a stroll down Las Avenidas, with a collection of personal short stories of everyday life in the mid decades of the 20th century on the avenues' side of a section of South Phoenix. His memoir represents a small but significant piece of the larger cultural mosaic of families of Mexican descent living in that area, particularly in a barrio known as la Sonorita, where personal and family stories fit into the history of Phoenix and Arizona. Through his accounts in this book, and as a member of one of Phoenix' pioneer and largest Mexican families, Joe Abril recreates the landscape, revives the characters, and resonates the voices of the barrio and its residents. Las Avenidas summons them all back to a new century where their legacy endures and carries on." Fine unread copy.

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