My parents were on their way home to Savannah but stopped at my house and are now here indefinitely waiting for Hurricane Dorian to show his cards. Docker (in the picture) gets along fine with my Gatsby but poor Ozzie kitten hasn‘t come out from under the bed since they arrived. I‘m going to be reading a lot if they end up staying too long!
pickOctavio Solis shares in this book stories about his childhood and growing up in El Paso. It's a very well written collection, but as usual with such a collection, some stories are more memorable than others. I enjoyed reading about someone else's childhood in a city that I now live in.
pickRetablos recreates a childhood growing up in a border town through short stories and micro fiction drawn from playwright Octavio Solis‘s childhood. Each piece uses the idea of the retablo to illustrate moments of awareness as a brown kid with immigrant parents: the first recognition of racism, a painful relationship with a sibling, a first job, interactions with Border Patrol, helping undocumented migrants, beginning to date.
Here is my #bookhaul from Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River. You‘ll have to trust me that we could see Mount Hood 🗻 peering through the trees in the yard of our rental house, as it didn‘t quite come out in the picture. 😂
Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border | 
