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Mexican Enough
August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| October 29, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Stephanie Elizondo Griest will be touring for the next few months with her latest memoir, Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. She’ll be in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 29 at Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia Street in the Mission District) at 7:30 p.m.
Here is a description of the book:
“Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother’s native Mexico to do a little root-searching and improve her ‘Tarzan Lite’ Spanish. She stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), sneaking into prison to meet with resistance fighters, and rallying with rebels in Oaxaca. She also interviews scores of migrant workers and the families they were forced to leave behind. Travel companions include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry Dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults–and the lessons to be learned along the way.”
For more information, see the website. Stephanie also wrote Around the Bloc and 100 Places Every Woman Should Go.