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"Dr. Muñoz gorgeously tells us the story of her abuelos and her border family in El Bowie Bakery. From La Union, New Mexico, the heartwarming and exciting story is a multi-generational gift to middle-grade readers who want to belong in many places and cultures with a pride that instead of taking sides chooses a new whole created from love. In this land we have forged our lives together. What a wonderful story to give to our children."
---Sergio Troncoso, author of Nobody's Pilgrims and A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son
El Bowie Bakery
Manuscript Synopsis
As a ninth-generation Bordercana, Toni and her family are a mestizo-mix of Native American and Mexican American heritage. They never left the Border. Growing up, she was never made to think of the Border—this in-between space—as two different spaces. In this multi-generational nonfiction story, Toni retells her abuelos’ love story to her young daughters while sharing the history of the area and its Latinx people. In La Union, the town where her family lives and where their family has always lived, the adobe dwellings are made from la tierra. The same earth is a womb for fallen ancestors—the Apaches who once roamed the area, the Spaniards who came before 1821, the Mexicans who came after, and the Mexican Americans and Bordercanx who inhabit the area today. From start to finish, this story is the embodiment of a Mexican American, double hybridized population. It is among the many stories of people still thriving and not forgotten along the US-Mexico. Border.
My Name in Brown
Manuscript Synopsis
As a ninth-generation Bordercana, Toni and her family are a mestizo-mix of Indigenous and Mexican American heritage. They never left the Border. Growing up, she was never made to think of the Border—this in-between space—as two different spaces. In this multigenerational nonfiction story, Toni retells her abuela’s story of their indigenous past while sharing the history of the area and its people. In La Union, the town where her family lives and where their family has always lived, the adobe dwellings are made from la tierra. The same earth is a womb for fallen ancestors—the Chihene Nde Apaches who once roamed the area, the Spaniards who came before 1821, the Mexicans who came after, and the Mexican Americans who still inhabit the area today. From start to finish, this story is the embodiment of determined population of indigenous peoples in their efforts to reunite their brothers and sisters as they reclaim their indigenous roots. It is among the many stories of people still thriving and not forgotten along the US-Mexico. Border.