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by Helena Maria Viramontes

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La Maravilla

A BEAUTIFUL STORY ... I was immediately captured by the insight and power of her imagery.... Her writing is tactile and sonorous, but there is something more.... I wanted to meet Viramontes’ characters, squat down and eat with them.” —Alfredo Véa, Jr., author of La Maravilla

The Moths and Other Stories

HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTES, author of The Moths and Other Stories, was born in East Los Angeles.

Her Own Terms

Gives a fierce poetic voice to the lives of Piscadores in the California vineyards and orchards.... Viramontes writes with an irresistible authority that compels our recognition and wonder.” —Judith Grossman, author of Her Own Terms

The Grapes of Wrath

Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality ... working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly

The Jungle

Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality ... working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly

City of Night

A gem of a novel. Beautifully written, as tender as it is tough. Its ending haunts.” —John Rechy, author of City of Night

So Far from God

A TOUCHING TALE ... a humanizing tribute to precious lives otherwise gone unnoticed.” —Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God

I Believe in God

The only book she had ever owned was a catechism chapbook that her godmother had given her. Estrella had read and reread the chapbook I Believe in God and The Holy Spirit came in the form of tongues of fire to show His love, and in a great wind to show the power of His grace.

Millie the Model

Estrella and Maxine lay side by side in the cattail reeds near the ditch to read Maxine’s favorite copy of Millie the Model.

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Orlando, Florida, United States
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East Los Angeles, California
"HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTES, author of The Moths and Other Stories, was born in East Los Angeles."
California, United States
"Gives a fierce poetic voice to the lives of Piscadores in the California vineyards and orchards.... Viramontes writes with an irresistible authority that compels our recognition and wonder.” —Judith Grossman, author of Her Own Terms"
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Buttonwillow, California
"who met in Buttonwillow picking cotton"
Jerez, Zacatecas
"…his new laces were too long and so he cut them with his single blade razor, the one he had brought with him all the way from Jerez, Zacatecas."
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
"…Was it really him with a business in Ensenada selling bags of peanuts and ceramics?"
Mixteca, Mexico
"—My name’s Alejo y estoy muy lejos de donde nací. Como la canción Mixteca, he joked."
Texas, United States
"…My grandma’s in Texas."
Edinburg, Texas
"Alejo thought of his own grandmother working in Edinburg, Texas, ironing, babysitting, cleaning houses, cutting cucumbers with lemon, salt, and powdered chile to sell at the Swap Meets, or making tamarind and hibiscus juices to sell after Sunday mass. She would do anything to allow her grandson to get schooling."
Chávez Street, Edinburg, Texas
"Right this minute, as he pressed his lips to his wound, he imagined his grandma walking down Chávez Street, cutting across the park to get to the bus stop."
Del Valle del Rio Grande, Texas
"—¿De dónde eres? —Del Valle del Rio Grande."
Texas, United States
"—¿Es un estado en Mexico? —Texas ya es parte de los Estados Unidos."
Rosarito, Baja California
"Later that same week, two piscadores fainted. The portable radio with a thunderbolt of twisted wire hanger for an antenna sizzled a report of 109 degrees Fahrenheit. Radio Cali, Rosarito, Baja California."
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California
"…she thought of the young girl that Alejo had told her about, the one girl they found in the La Brea Tar Pits. They found her in a few bones. No details of her life were left behind, no piece of cloth, no ring, no doll."
Hidalgo County, Texas
"—He was named after his grandfather on his father’s side. —Yes, but his last name. —Hidalgo, like in Hidalgo County, Texas, Estrella lied. —Is he a relative?"
Texas, United States
"—He was born in Texas. His grandma was born there too and her grandma. They belong here, Mama."
Santa Ana, California
"“Authorization and Certificate of Confidential Marriage”—Personal Data of Husband: He tired quickly. Personal Data of Wife: She was four months pregnant and wanted to change the date, but the man behind the counter said not to worry, he would change it on the record. Married in the town of Santa Ana, county of Orange, state of California. They had to transfer buses twice. They got there five minutes before the office closed, and he held the door open while she went to the bathroom."
Irvine, California
"To the U.C. Irvine Chicano Literary Contest; winning first place in the contest and receiving $400 were instrumental in motivating my confidence as a writer."
Los Angeles, California
"… whose scholarship for “underprivileged girls” helped pay for my undergraduate education at Immaculate Heart College."
Canada
"Y tambien a la Elizabeth Gonzales Towers, my comadre de Canada, y la Genet Chavez Gomez de Nueva Mexico, and my home-girls de E.L.A., Irene Hernandez and Suzie Rodríguez, who always have time for me."
New Mexico, United States
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Los Angeles, California
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Southern California, United States
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East Los Angeles, California
"my home-girls de E.L.A., Irene Hernandez and Suzie Rodríguez, who always have time for me."
Park City, Utah
"To Gabriel Garcia Márquez, who tried in every way to accommodate me after I initially declined the invitation to his storytelling workshop at the Sundance Institute. ¿Qué loca, no? Fortunately, I came to my senses at his insistence."
Mexico City, Mexico
"It was her father who’d ran away, gone to Mexico, the mother said at first, to bury an uncle just as they settled in a city apartment with the hope of never seeing another labor camp again."
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Ithaca, New York, United States
"She currently lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a creative writing professor at Cornell University."
Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States
"…Was it him crossing Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles with a woman who wore pumps so high he was almost as tall as him?"
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California
"…’Tar oil? You say tar oil, huh? —Once, when I picked peaches, I heard screams. It reminded me of the animals stuck in the tar pits. —Did people? Did people ever get stuck? —Only one, Alejo replied, in the La Brea tar pits, they found some human bones. A young girl.’"
Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States
"Petra glanced at the woman’s spiked heels. Was this like the woman who crossed Whittier Boulevard with Estrella’s real father?"