Las Avenidas, Life in Sonorita and Other Phoenix Barrios

Author Joe Abril takes the reader for a stroll down Las Avenidas, Life in Sonorita and Other Phoenix Barrios, with a collection of personal short stories of everyday life in the mid decades of the 20th century on the avenues' side of a section of South Phoenix.

His memoir represents a small but significant piece of the larger cultural mosaic of families of Mexican descent living in that area, particularly in a barrio known as la Sonorita, where personal and family stories fit into the history of Phoenix and Arizona.

Through his accounts in this book, and as a member of one of Phoenix' pioneer and largest Mexican families, Joe Abril recreates the landscape, revives the characters, and resonates the voices of the barrio and its residents.

Las Avenidas, Life in Sonorita and Other Phoenix Barrios summons them all back to a new century where their legacy endures and carries on.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Títle: Las Avenidas - Life in Sonorita and Other Phoenix Barrios

Author: Joe Abril
Year: 2015

Pages: 164 (with photographs)

Edition: First

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1936885138

Presentation: Paperback

Price: $19.95