This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post). Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul.

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Contains selections from the novel, a discussion of the lifestyles of Chicano farmers, and information on the writer's life and his work.

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This unique collection of 54 stories, poems, and memoirs takes a nostalgic, sometimes skeptical look at Catholic childhood and the lifelong struggles posed by faith. With the same sensitivity and humor they brought to the widely successful Catholic Girls, Sumrall and Vecchione provide a rich and outspoken collection.

In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world.

The first book-length collection of criticism dealing with the work of a single Chicano author contains 15 articles by U.S. and European scholars, an autobiography, a 24-page bibliography on Anaya, three appendixes, and an index.