Descanso for my father : fragments of a life / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, 1962-

Series:

American lives.

American lives series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Fathers and sons--Biography.

Fathers and sons.

Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, 1962-.

Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box" remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare appearances in stories when Fletcher or his siblings inquired. Meanwhile, his young Hispanic mother transformed herself into an artist, scouting the back roads and secondhand shops of New Mexico for relics and unlikely treasures to add to her "little shrines," or descansos. "Look closely," she'd say to her son. "Everything tells a story." <

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Beautiful City of Tirzah; White; Among the Broken Angels; Hardwood; Monster; Relics; Windows; Man in a Box; Ash; Rings; One Prayer; Undercurrent; Confluence; Wreath

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613664389

9781280687440

1280687444

9780803240162

0803240163

OCLC:

787843122