UID:
almafu_9959233633402883
Format:
1 online resource (223 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-27025-7
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9786612270253
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0-299-21903-8
Series Statement:
Writing in Latinidad
Content:
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Smarting Points, Starting Points -- Summer's Passage, Southern California, 1990 -- Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793 -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Part 2: Childhood and Other Language Lessons -- Bakersfield, California, 1970-72 -- Zacapu, México, 1972-79 -- Thermal, California, 1979-80 -- Thermal, 1981-82 (Our Little House on Top of the Garage) -- Summer's Passage -- Part 3: Adolescent Mariposa -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Indio, 1983-88 ("El Campo" Years) -- Part 4: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead -- Summer's Passage -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago) -- Part 5: Unpinned -- Riverside, California -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-299-21900-3
Language:
English
