Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. THE VALEDICTORIAN AND OTHER STORIES focuses in part on school age Chicanos and their interactions with Anglo children and adults, and in part on the author's adult wartime experiences. The stories explore at times painful Latino-Anglo relationships with a simple, direct, and emotionally affecting style. "Navarro's stories have the unmistakable ring of a lifetime of deeply lived experience. Each story paints a unique world steeped in vivid detail. I felt my heart expand as I followed his ...
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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. THE VALEDICTORIAN AND OTHER STORIES focuses in part on school age Chicanos and their interactions with Anglo children and adults, and in part on the author's adult wartime experiences. The stories explore at times painful Latino-Anglo relationships with a simple, direct, and emotionally affecting style. "Navarro's stories have the unmistakable ring of a lifetime of deeply lived experience. Each story paints a unique world steeped in vivid detail. I felt my heart expand as I followed his characters through their stories of growth, stories which subtly and expertly move the reader from one way of thinking to another. We are left enjoying the rich afterglow of felt experience"-Elva TreviAAo Hart, author of the award-winning memoir Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.
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