Cross Over Water

by Richard Yañez

Overview

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 borders of family, tradition, and identity trying to find his own place in the Chicano community and in the larger world. This is an engaging and moving story of growing up in a borderland that is not only geographical but cultural as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874178388
Publisher:	University of Nevada Press
Publication date:	02/28/2011
Series:	Western Literature and Fiction Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Richard Yañez, associate professor of English at El Paso Community College, was born and raised on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Editorial Reviews

"Yanez deftly explores the coming-of-age of Raul Luis Cruz, a Mexican American teenager who grows up in El Paso, just across the Rio Grande from Juarez ... Yanez, also born on the border, brings that region to life as he portrays with humor, perception, and compassion what it is like to grow up there, perhaps wishing to never leave." — Booklist


"A thoughtful story of growing up next to the border in New Mexico and the assortment of challenges that go with it all, 'Cross Over Water' is a thoughtful read and very solidly recommended." — The Midwest Book Review


"Simultaneously charming, funny, heartbreaking and heartwarming, this book skillfully toes the line between the familiar and the distinctive." — Texas Books in Review


"The El Paso described in these pages is warm and vibrant, and Yanez ushers his young protagonist from adolescence to adulthood with compassion and nuance." — The Feminist Texican [Reads]


“The writing is excellent. Very sly story-telling, assured, calm, and enveloping. ” - Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter

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