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This tender and funny memoir traces Mary Helens childhood from the age of eight to the beginnings of young womanhood at age 13. Combining a childs freshness of vision with adult irony, she conveys the poverty and prejudice she faced without sacrificing the memories of the everyday joys she experienced.
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1993 by the University of New Mexico Press. First edition. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ponce, Mary Helen. Hoyt Street: an autobiography / Mary Helen Ponce. 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1446-5 (cloth): 1. Ponce, Mary HelenHomes and hauntsCaliforniaLos Angeles. 2. Mexican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesSocial life and customs. 3. Mexican American womenCaliforniaLos Angeles Biography. 4. Novelists, American20th centuryBiography. 5. Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)Biography. 6. Ponce, Mary Helen BiographyYouth. 1. Title. PS3566.0586Z467 1993 813 '.54-dc20 [B] 93-1346 CIP
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Dedicatoria To the memory of my parents: Tranquilino R. Ponce and Vicenta Solis, whose love and care nurtured and sustained me and whose ethics continue to mold my life. For my brothers and sisters whom I love very much. For my children Joseph, Ana, Mark, and Ralph: That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. Proverbs 2:20
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