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| | Borders - Feature - Caramelo |
 | | Celaya's story begins one summer in Mexico when she is just a little girl, but soon her girlhood experiences segue back in time—to before Celaya was born, to her grandparents' history. |
 | | Celaya traces the Awful Grandmother's lonely and unhappy childhood in a Mexico ravaged by the Revolution of 1911; her meeting and ultimate union with Celaya's grandfather, Narciso Reyes (the Little Grandfather); and the birth of their first and favorite son, Celaya's father, Inocencio. |
 | | Celaya observes that "[e]veryone in Chicago lived with an idea of being superior to someone else, and they did not, if they could help it, live on the same block without of lot of readjustments, of exceptions made for the people they know by name instead of as 'those so-and so's'" (pp. |
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