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Sweet nata

by Zamora, Gloria,
Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque :) Physical details: ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN:9780826346353; 0826346359; 9780826346346; 0826346340. ISSN:978082634 Year: 2009
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In the beginning --
Grama's tejaván --
Domingos --
Funerals --
Visitas --
Día a noche --
Pila de maíz --
Pila de colchones --
Pilas de Leña --
Salidas de noche --
Life is so easy --
El padre --
Chíquete --
Fonazo --
Grampa y sus historias --
Pégame, soy pecadora --
Pollitos y más pollitos --
- Celebraciones --
Adiós Gramita --
Corrales --
School days --
Telephone --
Great discoveries --
Dad's growing-up stories --
Spring --
The Greyhound bus --
Kindred spirits --
A child is born --
Stage pride and an unexpected --
Perra, Daddy's home --
La cortinita --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
La vecina --
Tiendita de San Juan --
Madre mía --
Tadpoles and papalotes --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
OLOS --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
Hell, where is it? --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
Seventh grade --
San Ysidro church --
Catholic Daughters of the Americas --
Warmth in snow-covered mountains --
This little piggy --
Santa Claus is coming to town --
So long seventh, hello eighth grade --
Principle's pet --
Nothing lasts forever --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
Back to public school --
Piñon for the pickin' --
Dad's hunting surprise --
Las fiestas --
4-H --
Qué bueno que se acabo la escuela --
Crazy cow stories --
Crumbling ground --
Red is the color she wore.

A memoir about familial traditions and the joys and hardships the author experienced in her youth. Set during the 1950s and 1960s in Mora and Corrales, New Mexico, it reveals her interaction with her parents, grandparents, and other extended family members who had the greatest influence on her life.