Presents a satiric look at the present life of Mexican-Americans in Texas

A Shroud in the Family

Literature & Fiction

Garcia, Lionel G.

United States

Arte Publico Pr

English edition of a childrens book about two very good friends, one an elephant, and the other an ant, who start arguing over who is the better of the two. The story teaches the value of each of us as individuals and just how special we all are. The book is beautifully illustrated by Teresa Bamford Southwell, a supremely talented artist with her first major publication.

El Elefante y La Hormiga

Children's Books

Wisdom Pr

To a Widow with Children is a warm, funny novel that provides an endearing portrait of humanity in a small South Texas town. The novel focuses on the four children of a widow and follows their crazy antics that disrupt the peace of their sleepy village. The arrival of a stranger - a veteran of the Mexican Revolution - captures the imagination of the townspeople, including of course the children and their mother. Among the characters who populate this heartening tale are an unforgettable assortment of townspeople: a robust priest with endless patience, a mean-spirited cuckold, a love-starved naive telegrapher, the lovable but conniving children, the town's collection of old codgers who provide a chorus for all the happenings of note and, of course, the beautiful widow, a hapless over-aged suitor and the war-worn veteran. The comedy of errors that follows makes for delicious reading. All the gossip, false starts, foiled plans and mischief gradually, deliciously lead to an epiphany, an uplifting denouement of celebrations.

To a Widow with Children

Arte Publico Press

Lionel Garcia's second novel demythologizes the Texas past while creating an accurate, although satirized, portrayal of Mexican-American life in the modern metropolis. Garcia is a master of humor, the incongruous tale and dialogue.

I CAN HEAR THE COWBELLS RING is Lionel G. Garcia's collection of autobiographical vignettes reconstructing life in a small rural village in South Texas after World War II. With characteristic fine humor and occasional brushstrokes of nostalgia, the author succeeds in portraying a multitude of characters -- from his, crazy uncle Merce, to the long suffering village priest and the town dog -- brought together by warmth, tolerance and caring that binds them into an extended family. Throughout, the joy of life that pervades this remarkable collection dazzles the reader into a reaffirmation of all that is good and courageous in human beings struggling to eke out an existence with little more than hope and the sweat from their unending toil.

I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

This title gives authoritative coverage of 225 ethnic writers. It not only includes the classics of African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino, Jewish American, and Native American novels, short stories, plays, and poetry but many new voices as well in clearly written essays.

Magill's Choice: American Ethnic Writers: 0 (Great Events from History)

Young, Al

PALEY, Grace

Gates, Henry Louis

Parks, Gordon, Sr.

Arts & Literature

Salem Pr Inc

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A Shroud in the Family

El Elefante y La Hormiga

To a Widow with Children

A Shroud in the Family

I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring

Magill's Choice: American Ethnic Writers: 0 (Great Events from History)