Mixquiahuala–Place Where Corn Grows
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Books have lives. My first novel was born to the public in the 1980s, when recognition of U.S. Latinas started. My short novel was written in the 1970s when I was in my twenties. As a self-taught writer, a brown “American” woman of Mexican background, even as I worked on the story I never expected it to be published.
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Thirty-three years after it was first printed it remains in publication.