John Phillip Santos
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos
In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina—touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body—to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is…
