Publisher's Synopsis
Discover what it's like to emigrate from Mexico to the United States on the basis of one family's account. Highly readable award-winner tells the story about the cultural shock of arriving in the U.S. for the first time in the 1920s including the cultural conflicts and other difficulties in raising children in a new culture. Following the lives of the family members from the 1920s to the 1970s you'll learn about Mexican immigration to the U.S. and how "Mexican" kids became Mexican American.
