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Praise for Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

This audaciously poetic and muscularly philosophical memoir is, alternately, a magical travelogue, a feverish reconstruction of family history, a perplexing detective novel, and finally, a personal spiritual odyssey back in time to Aztec mythology.

San Jose Mercury News (front page review)

Santos is a vaquero poet at heart, but the laughter has turned to introspection andmay we still use this word?wisdom.

Chicago Tribune (front page review)

Santos counts the cost of immigration, assimilation and upward mobility in this graceful memoir, where intimate family chronicle alternates with introspective meditation on the Mexican past... he writes splendidly.

The New York Times

In his impressive memoir, John Phillip Santos attempts to locate the origin of that lingering loss among the descendants of the conquered Indians, and he does so with grand success.... What a wonderful story he has told here, in a memoir that is a brave and beautiful attempt to redeem a people out of a limbo of forgetting.

Los Angeles Times

Significant and unique... a beautiful, universal portrait of migration.

The Washington Post

There is a remembering here that strikes a deep chord. Mr. Santos tells his stories with clarity and serenity, as one looking back on a long, wide, winding road.

Dallas Morning News

[Santos] uses his talents to paint an incredibly rich portrait of his extended family... connecting the story to the birth of Mexico, the New World, the larger phenomenon of migration, and his brush with the apocalypse.

The Village Voice

Too big to fit in a review, and almost too big to fit in one heart. Places is a book that only a journalist could dream, and only a poet could write.

Austin Chronicle

[Santos] masterfully weaves the stories of various unforgettable characters with the landscape and fragrance of their memories.

The Miami Herald

An unforgettable chronicle.

Albuquerque Weekly Alibi

An unrelentingly gorgeous memoir... [Santos] draws from centuries of history and great wells of emotion to construct a remembrance that flies in the face of his very words.Texas Monthly

A moving, intellectually powerful memoir of Mexican-American life... His fine memoir is certain to find a wide readership.

Kirkus Reviews (starred)

[An] elegantly crafted chronicle of one of the thousands of Mexican families who fled to El Norte during the Mexican Revolution. [Santos] book is one of the most insightful investigations into Mexican-American border culture available.

Publishers Weekly (starred)

Many Americans will find themselves in the narrative of upheaval and migration; they will recognize the difference between labored nostalgia and heartfelt loss.

Booklist (starred)

It pains me when the incredible histories of our people are trivialized as magic realism; surviving is no magic act. In a time of global migrations and forgetting, these stories remember beyond the Alamo, beyond 1776, 1492, and 1519. I would recommend that the governors of Texas, California, and Arizona, the presidents of Mexico and the United States, and the director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service read this book. This is the map of one family, and perhaps all families who live on several borders. Here, then, are our documents, our papers. This story is our green card.

Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street

This book is a tender treasure, a rare gift, a journey into the rich tapestry of a familys life and migrations. Exquisitely woven, intrinsically poetic, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation moves fluidly among relatives and realities, cities and mysteries, unearthing, liking, shining deep light into the memory-caverns of our worlds. The best memoir Ive ever read.

Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Never in a Hurry

John Phillip Santos invokes the muses of homelessness. He draws his silhouette in the twilight and inserts it in an ancient mural whose meaning is beyond him. His ultimate realization is that his is a wandering soul but he is nothas never beenalone. His memoir is a lesson in humility.

Ilan Stavans

John Santoss powerful memoir is not a simple walk down memory lane, but rather a poetic exploration of the ways in which remembering and forgetting inform our fragile modes of surviving and thriving. From Texas to Oxford, from grandparents to Borges, Santos takes us on a poignant pilgrimage that ends deep within our souls.Cornel West, bestselling author of Race Matters

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PLACES LEFT UNFINISHED AT THE TIME OF CREATION

John Phillip Santos, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes scholar and the recipient of numerous literary awards. His articles on Latino culture, art, and politics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and the San Antonio Express News. He is writer and producer of more than forty television documentaries for CBS and PBS, three of them Emmy nominees. He lives in New York City, where he works in the Media Program of the Ford Foundation.

Para mis padres,
who gave me the story

Family Trees

Los Garcias

(Children in order of birth)
Francisco, UNCLE FRANK
Margarita, Uela, my grandmother
Jos
Santos
Juan
Tomasita (died at birth)
Tomasa, Madrina
Josefa, Ta Pepa
Jess, UNCLE JESSE
Gilberto, UNCLE GILBERT
Manuel
Valentn (Manuels twin, died at birth)
Carlos, UNCLE CHALE

Los Santos

Juan Nepumencio Santos m. Paula Sandoval

(Children in order of birth)

Mariano

Uvaldino

Juan Jos, my grandfather

Andrea

Francisca, Ta Panchita

Jesusa, Ta Chita

Manuela, Ta Nela

(Children by Juan Nepumencios first marriage)

Pedro

Jos Len

Guadalupe

Jess Mara

Juan Jos Santos m. Margarita Garcia, Uela

(Children in order of birth)

Raul

Juan Jos, Jr., my father

Consuelo, AUNT CONNIE

Beatriz, AUNT BEA

Margarita, AUNT MARGIE

Rogelio, UNCLE ROGER

Juan Jos Santos, Jr., DADDY, m. Lucille Lopez, MOTHER

John Phillip

George David

Charles Daniel

Los Lopez

Leonides Lopez m. Leandra Vela, GRANDMOTHER

(Children in order of birth)

Leo William

Lauro Luis

Lydia Viola

Lily Amanda

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