Cancula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

About this book

Cancula--the dog days--a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cants fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s 1950s and early 1960s it also represents a time between childhood and an as yet unknown adulthood. Actual snapshots and the authors re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this world--births deaths injuries fiestas rites of passage. This popular book won the 1995 Premio Aztln. "A personalized ethnography that feels as familiar as my own family album and as touching."--Ana Castillo "Intimate as a poem and as large as the Texas sky these stories are at once diminutive and grand."--Sandra Cisneros