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Jiménez, Francisco

Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University

200 pp. | Houghton | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-63230-8 $16.99
(2) YA This fourth volume of Jiménez's memoir series (The Circuit, etc.) covers graduate school at Columbia during the turbulent 1960s, his courtship and marriage to college sweetheart Laura, and their children's births. Throughout, Jiménez never forgets his beginnings as the child of migrant farm workers. The humble sincerity of Jiménez's prose makes us root for him to succeed. A selection of captioned photographs is appended.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015

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