Ada Limón on family and Lydia Mendoza, from our Texas Music Issue: Tracing complicated family stories is like trying to cross the desert holding water in your hands. What’s left is only an unidentifiable drop of what was once there. On one side of my family, our story spans a desert and a river and a border. Francisco Carlos Limón, my father’s father, came to the United States with his mother and sisters to escape the Mexican Revolution. I remember the story well. Pancho Villa confiscated their land in San Juan de Los Lagos. They crossed the border in Texas. They struggled and then eventually succeeded. It’s a tale not all that different from any immigration story.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:55:11 +0000
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