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Hoyt Street: An Autobiography
It's the 1940s. Little Mary Helen Ponce and her family live in Pacoima. Unmindful of their poverty, Mary Helen and her friends sneak into the circus, run wild at church bazaars, and snitch apricots from the neighbour's tree. This book tells Mary's story, of the desire of a little girl who longs for patent leather shoes instead of clunky oxfords.
Paperback
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338 pages
Published
February 1st 2006
by University of New Mexico Press
(first published September 1993)
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Mary Helen Ponce tells of a happy barrio life in pre and WWII era Pacoimo, CA, near Los Angeles. It is her own story, telling of her parents' coming to live in the United States from Mexico, her many brothers and sisters, some born in Mexico, those who died and those who lived. Life was not perfect in the barrio, but it was a secure place of comfort and acceptance and much love even with the conditions she was sometimes embarrassed by. The memoir chronicles her life until early teens and it is w
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