The Chicano characters in Richard Yañez’s debut story collection live in El Paso’s Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders -- between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenage...
Raul Luis "Ruly" Cruz is a young Mexican American who lives in El Paso, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, home of his an-cestors and some of his current relatives. As he grows from awkward adolescent to manhood, he negotiates the precarious...