Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Beautiful City of Tirzah; White; Among the Broken Angels; Hardwood; Monster; Relics; Windows; Man in a Box; Ash; Rings; One Prayer; Undercurrent; Confluence; Wreath. |
Summary |
When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box" remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare appearances in stories when Fletcher or his siblings inquired. Meanwhile, his young Hispanic mother transformed herself into an artist, scouting the back roads and secondhand shops of New Mexico for relics and unlikely treasures to add to her "little shrines," or descansos. "Look closely," she'd say to her son. "Everything tells a story." This book is. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, 1962-
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Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Fathers and sons -- Biography.
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Literature.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria. Descanso for My Father : Fragments of a Life. Lincoln : UNP - Bison Original, ©2012 9780803238398 |
ISBN |
9780803240162 (electronic bk.) |
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0803240163 (electronic bk.) |
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