Hoyt Street

Memories of a Chicana Childhood

• Author(s): Mary Helen Ponce,
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Pages: 338
• ISBN_10: 0385475470
  ISBN_13: 9780385475471
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Minority Studies , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies ,

Description:... This tender and funny memoir traces Mary Helen's childhood from the age of eight to the beginnings of young womanhood at age 13. Combining a child's freshness of vision with adult irony, she conveys the poverty and prejudice she faced without sacrificing the memories of the everyday joys she experienced.